Sentence examples for propositions off from inspiring English sources

So it is an account of action that is being read off the inference patterns (rather than the other way around), in something like the way that Fregeans of this stripe take us to read the logical form of propositions off our command of truth-functional and quantificational inference.

Then again, we've seen sites with similarly simple propositions take off — Formspring's 'Ask me anything' comes to mind — so who knows.

If the proposition comes off as simultaneously highbrow and plebian, that's kind of the point.

That proposition sets off alarm bells for other observers, who see any international tax as a move toward further strengthening the power of the global financial oligarchs.

It's not hard to see why such propositions put people off: building works mean noise, dust and disruption; the environment and social chemistry of an estate can end up changed in unwelcome ways.

And a number of interest groups are already lining up support for other tax measures next year; a ballot crowded with propositions could turn off voters.

Our discussion highlights the mediating mechanisms by which business models and technology design influence each other, clarifying why the initial value proposition of the spin-offs was either refined or reframed.

From the mound, a raised stage in the middle of the baseball diamond, they are entrusted with the all-or-nothing proposition of finishing off a victory.

And yet, even in the nineteen-fifties, where we must rewind to some forgotten collective frame of mind before the sexual-harassment laws of the nineteen-seventies, the proposition still gives off a sour smell.

That in and of itself adds enough of a value proposition to get off the ground.

While Airbnb successfully fought off Proposition F in San Francisco, it may still face tighter regulations with progressive Aaron Peskin elected to the city's Board of Supervisors.