Sentence examples for significant propositions from inspiring English sources
Tautological propositions are generally a priori, necessary, and analytic, and significant propositions are generally a posteriori, contingent, and synthetic.
The distinction between tautological and significant propositions figures importantly in the history of the philosophy of religion.
Beyond that, what actually had failed was the attempt to characterize for natural languages the class of cognitively significant propositions by recursive definitions in purely logical terms, either by relations of deducibility or translatability.
As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.
As Hume and Kant pointed out, however, it is fallacious to derive a proposition with existential import from a tautology, and it is now generally agreed that, from a tautology alone, it is impossible to derive any significant proposition.
He formulates four criteria or conditions "the complete fulfillment of which would establish a significant proposition, apparently self-evident, in the highest degree of certainty attainable: and which must be approximately realised by the premises of our reasoning in any inquiry, if that reasoning is to lead us cogently to trustworthy conclusions" (Sidgwick, 1907: 338).
The most significant proposition for Los Angeles in Tuesday's election wasn't even on the ballot here.
In Michigan, voters defeated by significant margins propositions to allow hunting of the state's wolves.
"We had concluded that there was a significant value proposition for our shareholders," Mr. Jacobs said.
If it still undercuts the lowest-end iPad by hundreds of dollars, that could be a significant value proposition for consumers.
Easily handing off from the smartphone to native formats on the Apple TV is a significant value proposition for multimedia consumers.
