The political debate about globalization tends to get stuck between a couple of propositions: on the one hand, globalization tends to reduce prices of goods and services and bolster economic growth, helping companies become more efficient.
Belief, desire, intention, discovery, knowledge, etc., are all psychological relationships between persons, on the one hand, and propositions, on the other.
At sixty-one, he has extensive experience handicapping risk propositions on Wall Street; he worked for Warren Buffett, helped reshape the reinsurance business, and oversaw some three-quarters of a trillion dollars for Zurich Financial Services.
The major problem with Davidson's account is that he construes "conceptual schemes" as sets of propositions, on the basis of which he is claiming that there can only be one such true set.
There were also confusing propositions on sharing games with others.
By contrast, five other propositions on the state-wide ballot were winning, most by substantial margins.
"[The security services] come to government with propositions on a regular basis, we're responding again.
But there will also be some startlingly fresh propositions on display.
Taking these value propositions on board, we reiterate our buy recommendation with a target price of 440p.
Political Compass (politicalcompass.org), a project by Wayne Brittenden, a political journalist in London, asks you to agree or disagree with 61 propositions on social and political topics.
California's voters had to mull over 11 propositions on election day, ranging from the death penalty and genetically modified food labelling all the way to state senate redistricting.
