Sentence examples for propositions expressed from inspiring English sources

Further, it should be clear that the semantic values of expressions are recoverable from the propositions expressed by sentences in which they occur.

It should also be clear that the semantic values of expressions are recoverable from the propositions expressed by sentences containing them.

4. Strictly, Crimmins seems only to claim that sentences sometimes express propositions (in a context), where the propositions expressed contain constituents that are not supplied by any overt expression in the sentences.

Directly referential expressions contribute their referents (in a context) to the propositions expressed (in that context) by the sentences containing them.

The propositions expressed by (5a) and (6a) seem different from the propositions expressed by the other first members of the other pairs.

He generally takes a nominalist line, and will have no truck with propositions expressed by sentences.

The negations of true propositions expressing relations of ideas are contradictory.

To Hume's objection that there is an absolute logical difference between propositions expressing matters of fact and existence and propositions expressing relations of ideas, Hegel replies brusquely that the distinction is untenable.

Still, he uses the idea of the signification of a proposition to define truth and to explain 'insolubles', i.e., propositions expressing paradoxes of self-reference.

While realism is a complex and often sophisticated doctrine, its core propositions express a strong suspicion about applying moral concepts, like justice, to the conduct of international affairs.

Sense, for Frege, constitutes the semantic contribution of an expression to the thought (proposition) expressed (and hopefully communicated) on an occasion of utterance.