Sentence examples for sort of proposition from inspiring English sources

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.

As Hájek notes, if \(c\) is defined on propositions concerning ethical matters, or mathematical matters, or aesthetic matters, or facts about the current time or the agent's current location, it is not clear that it could possibly be the chance function of any world, since chances cannot attach to these sorts of proposition.

Russell there gave no indication that he believed in any other sorts of complexes or truth-makers for any other sorts of propositions.

Elsewhere, Kant also includes geometric theorems as the sorts of propositions (in addition to geometric principles) that count as synthetic (Friedman 1992, Friedman 2010).

Up to this point, I have been discussing what sorts of propositions can be justified, or known, a priori, and whether a priori justification is fallible and defeasible.

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.