Sentence examples for subject of the proposition from inspiring English sources

The term that fills the first blank is called the subject of the proposition, that which fills the second is the predicate.

Or rather, if it is "about" something, it is about the subject of the proposition itself.

The immediately ensuing step, the application, spells out the similarity between the example and the subject of the proposition.

Negation of a predicate in a proposition presupposes the existence of the subject of the proposition, whereas negation of the entire proposition need not rest on such a presupposition.

This means that in its canonical use the possible excludes necessity, although it does not exclude that the possible state of affairs is in fact the case (that the predicate holds—huparchei of the subject of the proposition).

In an epistemological sense, finally, as predicative concepts expressed by the predicate of a proposition that are connected with the concept expressed by the subject of the proposition into a thought expressed by the proposition itself, transcendentals are concepts that cannot be analyzed by taking recourse to a still higher genus and are, therefore, first known, self-evident, and primitive.

An entity occurs "as term" when it can be replaced by any other entity and the result would still be a proposition, and when it is one of the subjects of the proposition, i.e., something the proposition is "about".

On the other hand there was Walter Chatton, who argued that the object of propositional knowledge was the actual entity signified by the subject term of the proposition.

In some sense we add the propositions, or at least bits of them: we add the subject of the first proposition to the predicate of the second, aided in this by the middle term.

An aggregate is nothing but the union of one of the countless accidental forms of a macro-object with its primary substance, and a complex object is the union of two forms of a macro-object (one of which, i.e., the one designated directly or indirectly by the subject-term of the proposition, must be substantial) with and by means of the primary substance.

Propositional j-factors are altogether the content of a sentence like the subject, the proposition and the time of the justification of a belief [2, 9, 10, 11].