Sentence examples for subtle propositions from inspiring English sources

Last year our reviewer, Norman Rush, said this "unnerving" book illuminates "subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it".

But Stone has proceeded to concern himself with just those ancient questions, doing his level best to illuminate subtle propositions about the human predicament and those extreme paths that purport to lead the seeker up and out of it, knowing very well that a lot of educated people are going to think those propositions are strange.

Carson is grappling with deep time, yet Autobiography of Red remains a straightforward ish) retelling of a myth; Red Doc> is a far more temporally subtle proposition.

The final two are Absolutely Anything, the Terry Jones comedy in which he voices Simon Pegg's dog, Dennis, and a rather subtler proposition: a drama called Boulevard, which premiered to warm reviews at Tribeca in April.

Their new album is a more subtle, and nuanced, proposition.

It was the Stoics who systematically developed a logic of propositions and devised subtle classifications of predicates.

Appleby is the most subtle current proponent of the proposition that Thomas Jefferson's life has enduring importance for America.

Conundrums such as this may explain why, as of Proposition Sixteen, there is a subtle but important shift in Spinoza's language.

This model predicts the results of the 2012 ballot propositions quite accurately, accounting for some of the more subtle demographic distinctions that we had lost previously.

She concludes from this that there are disparities between what we strictly speaking say, the propositions we verbally express, and what we successfully mean that are subtler than those exhibited in classical Gricean implicatures.

More subtle is Wittgenstein's insight that the possibility of this structure being shared by the picture (the thought, the proposition) and the state of affairs is the pictorial form.