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Roughly speaking, Proposition 3 implies that if the network becomes denser then, in equilibrium, the fraction of links reaching the public good decreases.

Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, and Ron Conway, angel investor at SV Angel, spoke about Proposition E, a proposal to  change the payroll tax in San Francisco at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco today.

David Campos, speaking for Proposition I from Openvote on Vimeo.

Scott Wiener, speaking against Proposition I from Openvote on Vimeo.

If no real proposition matches spoken, written, and mental propositions that are false, what is grasped when we understand the meaning of a false proposition?

For example, where a is the spoken or written proposition 'a is false', a corresponds to and expresses the conjunction of two mental propositions.

Complex objects (or states of affairs — Burley's propositiones in re, the ultimate significatum of a written, spoken or mental proposition) and what we have called 'aggregates' (the significatum of a concrete accidental term) are not identical with macro-objects, but definite aspects of them.

Ockham, however, tends to see mental propositions as logically ideal or, in modern parlance, 'canonical'.[8] The problem with spoken and written propositions is that because they depend on the meaning conventions of fallible users, they fail to be universal and logically perspicuous.

An insoluble proposition in spoken or written language corresponds to and expresses not the mental proposition one would normally expect on the basis of the usual linguistic conventions, but a complex and non-paradoxical mental proposition.

This is the semantic link between the written, spoken, and (first) mental propositions on the one hand, and the real proposition (the state of affairs) they signify on the other.

It exists even if the written, spoken, and (first) mental propositions are false and nothing corresponds to them in reality (fol. 48vb).

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