Sentence examples for that propositions from inspiring English sources
On such a conception, the truth-set of a proposition is the proposition itself, and issues about propositional existence remain: it may be held that propositions exist necessarily, or that their existence is in general world-relative.
(Some philosophers have preferred to say that propositions about fictional or nonexistent entities are neither true nor false).
Even if it could be made out that propositions of this kind are peculiar to metaphysics, however, it would not follow that everything in metaphysics has this character.
Suppose that propositions exist necessarily.
Others hold that propositions do not have significant internal structure.
Finally, some philosophers claim that propositions are abstract objects.
The Russellian answer is that propositions exist as derived objects.
Indeed, he later rejects the suggestion that propositions signify their own truth.
The key is to realize that propositions do not always wear their meanings on their sleeves.
He also assumes that propositions are the things that agents assert and believe.
(Even the correspondence theorist holds that propositions about propositions have propositions as their truth conditions).
