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Their principle of verification required for a sentence or statement to be meaningful that it have empirical consequences, and, on some formulations of the principle, that the meaning of a sentence is the empirical procedure for confirming it (see the entry Vienna Circle).

On the other hand, it may be less problematic or less controversial to say that rigidity assures that the sentence or statement (interpreted sentence) 'Hesperus = Phosphorus' is necessarily true even though we can find this out only a posteriori (Fitch 2004, pp. 110 13; LaPorte forthcoming; Hughes 2004, pp. 106 7; cf. Kripke 1980, pp. 20 1).

Clarify your sense of purpose and invest the needed time to distill it into one simple sentence or statement.

A thought by itself is just a concept in the form of a sentence or statement that we can manipulate with our intellect.

For consonants, you'll say a sentence or statement in which the first word starts with the same letter that you are trying to spell out.

With every sentence, description, or statement we verbalize or write effectively, we can earn the chance to open the next door.

On such a view, propositions cannot be sentences or statements or beliefs.

If it is tenable to say that rigidity assures that some sentences or statements like this are necessarily true though a posteriori, further questions immediately impose themselves.

In those systems that do embrace truth value gaps (Strawson, arguably Frege) or non-classically-valued systems (Łukasiewicz, Bochvar, Kleene), some sentences or statements are not assigned a (classical) truth value; in Strawson's famous dictum, the question of the truth value of "The king of France is wise", in a world in which France is a republic, simply fails to arise.

Despite these significant steps in the direction of later logical theories, it is an exaggeration to claim, as some have done, that Bradley's strictures on the account of judgment as a combination of ideas mean that he is straightforwardly opposed to psychologism in logic, for it is clear that he thinks logic's subject matter to be mental acts, not sentences or statements.

In the next step, we coded phrases, sentences, or statements that were significant for the purpose of this study (meaning units) and grasped the meaning of the identified meaning units by re-formulating them (descriptive level).