Sentence examples for single proposition from inspiring English sources

If it is the proposition itself, however, of which we get the impression that it can be true as well as false, this is due to the fact that we take a part of it to be variable (WL II, 77); in this case again we do not consider a single proposition, but a whole set of propositions, i.e., a propositional form.

Temporary friendships are struck through the common experience of waiting and thinking about a single proposition.

A single proposition also underlies Mr. Bush's determination to destroy the ABM treaty.

Creativity has come to be associated with brevity and a belief in advertising, that all persuasion should reside in a single proposition, usually expressed in a sentence.

They have rejected every single proposition if it counts one dollar, one cent in additional cost to people making a million dollars".

By this I mean that the texture recalls those solid, inspirational Hollywood biographies of the 1930s associated with Paul Muni, while the structure, as in Brecht's Galileo, is a succession of exemplary sequences each built around a single proposition.

We have explained Bolzano's method of idea-variation in section 3.6 with respect to single propositions.

But its criticism by Antiochus (the context for Cicero's report) very strongly suggests that Philo offered an alternative and weaker definition of knowledge of single propositions.

This leads to the initial idea of assigning, let's say, statements about the importance or influence to single propositions (e.g., in terms of fuzzy expressions).

If the internal representation is instead more language-like, then chunks will be relatively small, often single propositions, and the lexical choice process will resemble internal paraphrasing of the logical forms.

Thus, for a truly evident judgment to take place, a single evident proposition cannot be its cause, rather all three propositions of the syllogism must be taken together in order for the concluding proposition to have the evidence it needs to not only appear true, but to compel the mind's assent (LS I:199 208).