Sentence examples for propositions like from inspiring English sources

A false proposition (like h&r&~w) can be closer to the truth than some true propositions (like h).

It is unclear whether Russell holds that propositional functions also occur as constituents in singular propositions like if Socrates drinks hemlock he will die.

Marriage propositions like Ms. Baker's are apparently common.

A debate club attracted surprisingly animated audiences for subversive propositions like "Democracy is the best form of government".

Propositions like this are so central to the justification of Ai's unyielding work that one tends to take them for granted when reading her.

Mr. Bardem has never courted fame in his own country, and he has turned down commercial propositions like Robert Carlyle's bad-guy role in the James Bond movie "The World Is Not Enough".

According to Husserl judgements are intentional acts with a propositional content directed at proposition-like entities which he calls Sachverhalte.

To respect the requirement, we need to nest reference-level objects and properties in propositions, or proposition-like structures, also located at the level of reference.

A state of affairs for Plantinga is a proposition-like entity that either obtains — [Socrates' having been a philosopher], say — or does not — [There being Aliens], say.

These are proposition-like entities expressed by sentences containing empty names that can fail to be true because of the gaps (see Braun (1993), (2005), Adams et al. (1997)).

The idea here would be that—so this identity theorist is ready to concede we normally think of facts as extensional, reference-level entities; and this theorist also agrees that we also, at least sometimes, individuate propositions or proposition-like entities intensionally.