Sentence examples for structure propositions from inspiring English sources
Based on the various parenting styles and family structure, propositions are made on the kind of leadership style that may arise from family dynamics.
Clearly some abstract objects and universals must be rejected by Goodmanian Nominalism: sets or classes, structured propositions, structural universals; but the problem with these is not that they are abstract or universal but that they violate Goodman's principle that no two distinct entities can be composed of the same atoms.
For more on structured propositions, see the entry on structured propositions.[9] Any theory that construes propositions as structured entities would seem to face the problem of the unity of the proposition.
But in the case of a singular term which is directly referential, the constituent of the proposition is just the object itself" (Kaplan 1989a, p. 494; see also the section relating possible worlds and structured propositions in the entry on structured propositions).
It may strike some as odd that the views of Cresswell [1985] are included in an article on structured propositions since he explicitly argues against what he calls "the propositional account of belief".
Krakauer constructs impossible worlds as sets of structured propositions.
For an overview see the entry on structured propositions.
For more information on this topic, see Jeffrey C. King's article Structured Propositions in this encylopedia.
Further, the contents (in contexts) of sentences containing such indexicals sentences are singular propositions (structured propositions that have individuals as constituents).
Russellian and Fregean views make claims about what sorts of things are the constituents of propositions — but don't tell us what the structured propositions so constituted are.
These questions as to what holds structured propositions together and gives them their structure, and how/why proposition have truth conditions turns us to other recent work within the neo-Russellian approach.
