Sentence examples for some sort of proposition from inspiring English sources

Explanatory case studies must begin with some sort of proposition – preferably grounded in established theory.

Another anticlosure argument is that there are some sorts of propositions we cannot know unless perhaps we take extraordinary measures, yet such propositions are entailed by mundane claims whose truth we do know.

Heidegger points out that the philosophical tradition standardly conceives of truth as attaching to propositions, and as involving some sort of correspondence between propositions and states of affairs.

Some proponents of cognitivism universalize this feature, and maintain that any emotion must involve some sort of attitude directed at a proposition.

Simple can't theories often embrace some sort of impossibility hypothesis, suggesting that propositions that evoke imaginative resistance are impossible in the context of the stories where they appear, and that this explains why readers fail to imagine them as true in the fiction.

This sort of proposition is typically derived from history.

While parents' concerns are understandable, any attempt to bring the problem back down to a nicely manageable pro or con sort of proposition is a Sisyphean task.

Were it not for the phone-hacking saga, this is the sort of proposition that could have dominated the summer's politics, and probably not in a happy way.

That sort of proposition is finding more and more willing participants.

I'm a fan of maintaining as a direct a route between my stomach and food as I can, but that's the sort of proposition that gets dicier when multiple people are involved.

So, on one early externalist theory of knowledge, it was suggested that an agent might know a certain sort of proposition (e.g. that there is a fireplace here) if their belief that there is a fireplace here was caused by a reliable causal process (e.g. a normal visual system)—and not, e.g., by the interventions of wicked scientists fiddling with the subject's brain.