Sentence examples for propositions about what from inspiring English sources

Even though the Tories weren't offering any solutions or propositions about what they would do to relieve these problems, they were talking about them, and that clearly resonated.

Their plight is worsened by the fact that arbitrarily chosen sets of propositions can include propositions about what is believed.

One derives 'images' from the objects of pistis or considers them differently, developing different propositions about what one previously took for granted.

Propositions about what a creature would do in a set of circumstances (possible as well as actual) are commonly called "counterfactuals of freedom", and God's knowledge of them is called "middle knowledge".

Thus, after giving the second definition above, Chisholm says that the concept of certainty is illustrated by propositions about what he calls "self-presenting" mental states and by some logical and metaphysical axioms (1989, p. 12).

Thus Russell has set himself a rather difficult problem, since it is not at all clear that there can be any true propositions that are not, in some sense, propositions about what is, has been or will be.

For example Audi (1988: 9) starts his discussions on the concept of belief by the nature of perception and mentions that some beliefs are propositional (their truth or falsity depends on the degree that our proposition about what we discuss is true or false).

The truth of the proposition "life has meaning" is more evident and secure than any proposition about what must be true if life is to have meaning.

To him, regardless of the size of the fund they have, it's all about the value proposition — about what they offer entrepreneurs, he noted.

For much the same reason it meets condition (2.6): "X is good", is not equivalent to a proposition about what is, has been or will be, because it is not equivalent to any proposition whatsoever.

Hence "some basis must be found for ethical judgments", but "it is sufficiently obvious that such a basis cannot be sought in any proposition about what is or has been".