Sentence examples for relation to the proposition from inspiring English sources

When John expects the stock market to fall, he stands in a certain relation to the proposition or sentence-meaning "the stock market will fall"; and when Mary wants to be a doctor, she stands in a different relation to the proposition or sentence-meaning "Mary will be a doctor".

This is the second task of a logic of sense: "to combine the sterility of sense in relation to the proposition from which it was extracted with its power of genesis in relation to the dimensions of the proposition" (LS 32).

A sentence like (8) would then be read as something like: "Jack and Jill went up the hill and (there is an individual-concept c that "designates" Jill such that) Jack stands in the belief relation to the proposition consisting of c and the semantic value of 'went up first'".

Salmon and Soames also hold that 'believes' expresses a relation between individuals and propositions, so that 'Scott believes that Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens' expresses a proposition to the effect Scott stands in the believes relation to the proposition expressed by 'Mark Twain is Samuel Clemens'.

Further, if propositions are sets of possible worlds, belief is construed as a relation between individuals and propositions and sentences of the form 'A believes that P' assert that the individual A stands in the belief relation to the proposition expressed by 'P', then for any necessarily equivalent sentences 'P' and 'Q', 'A believes that P' and 'A believes that Q' cannot differ in truth value.

For God to believe that Oswald killed Kennedy is for God to stand in a relation to a proposition without it being the case that there is anything intrinsic to God that grounds his standing in the belief relation to the Oswald proposition as opposed to any other proposition.

It follows that one cannot have knowledge and faith at the same time in relation to the same proposition; faith can only arise in the absence of knowledge.

Sainsbury's has asked us to point out that, while it stated it would consider viable commercial propositions in relation to the White Hart Lane site, no such proposition has been received, nor did it make any promise or agreement on this issue and therefore has not reneged on anything.

Since Dara stands in (Relation) to the property of swimming in the proposition that Dara swims, call (Relation) the propositional relation of the proposition that Dara swims.

The propositional content of a judgment, in turn, can vary along at least three different dimensions: (1) its relation to sensory content, (2) its relation to the truth-conditions of propositions, and (3) its relation to the conditions for objective validity.

We have already seen that Fodor seems to endorse the view that knowledge-how involves standing in the tacit-knowledge-relation to the appropriate proposition.