Sentence examples for singular proposition from inspiring English sources

A view broadly similar to Perry's early view is developed in Kaplan 1977/1989, where Kaplan distinguishes content and character, claiming that the latter captures the cognitive significance of an expression and the former is the bearer of truth value and the object of the propositional attitudes, often being a singular proposition.

It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally past; and a singular proposition proved that it's protection of opinion was meant to be universal.

Schiffer (1978 , 1981 holds that each agent can believe a singular proposition about herself, but cannot believe a singular proposition about any other object.

So, either (7) is not a singular proposition or it is not possibly true.

Both (11) and (13), that is, report belief in the same singular proposition.

The content of both (5) and (6) is the singular proposition that Superman flies.

Suppose that the the subject constituent of a singular proposition is a bundle of properties.

The former can be a singular proposition or a configuration of objects and their properties.

(9) seems like a true singular proposition, as Socrates died long ago.

Plantinga concluded that a singular proposition about o can exist even though o does not exist.

Suppose that (10) is a singular proposition with Bush as a constituent.