Sentence examples for propositions alone from inspiring English sources

Some metaphysicians (such as Bradley and his Scottish predecessor J.F. Ferrier) have claimed that there is a difference between their discipline and others insofar as metaphysical propositions alone are self-reinstating.

Perhaps exemplification can still serve an epistemological purpose by inviting us to engage with the issues raised by a work of art in a richer and more imaginative way; in a way that makes us think about questions of philosophical interest in particular way – a way that propositions alone cannot do?

It might be too late for Twitter to accomplish the new packaged media proposition alone.

The expression of the proposition alone is accidental and thus contains only a relative sense.

Yammer's control point was its community of thousands of people in an organization, which made it difficult to replace, though ultimately, it could not capitalize on that proposition alone.

Let t be a given time and consider the following thesis: It follows from E that, for every proposition p, there is at least one possible world unique to p, a world in which that proposition alone is entertained at t. Hence, there have to be at least as many worlds as propositions.

Granted, then, that a system of philosophy must begin with a single, immediately certain, synthetic first proposition or "grounding principle": where might one turn in order to discover and to recognize the first principle in question, a proposition that alone can serve as the foundation or "ground" of all other philosophical propositions and cannot itself be established by any argument?

"Building the Carmichael coalmine is in itself a ludicrous proposition, let alone lending the company a billion dollars of taxpayer's money that we may never get back," Greenpeace campaigner Jonathan Moylan said.

Amongst a series of ballot measures this year, Proposition 30 alone will begin to put our university system back on track.

We have before us the same record that was before the Court of Appeals, and the record simply does not support the proposition that much let alone "most"—of the delay was caused by the State's failure to fund the defense.

Our name notwithstanding, Teachers College was founded on the proposition that education alone can't correct our society's inequalities — that to maximize the life chances of all people, we must also support poorer communities' physical and nutritional health and psychological wellbeing.