Sentence examples for the former proposition from inspiring English sources

Gandhi preferred to say that the truth is God rather than God is the truth, because the former proposition expresses a belief that even the atheists share.

(Suppose we drew an Euler diagram for the former proposition and try to add a new compatible piece of information, i.e., the latter, to this existing diagram).

The former proposition follows from the repeated observation that prior discussions between patients and proxies about treatment preferences often lead to higher levels of agreement [ 6, 28].

The mistake here made, according to Wittgenstein (PG 451), is that we are implicitly 'comparing the proposition "(∃n)…" with the proposition… "There are two foreign words on this page",' which doesn't provide the grammar of the former 'proposition,' but only indicates an analogy in their respective rules.

If we compare the impossible groups with some former propositions (for instance by pruning the tree of life recently published by Cicarelli et al. from the groups we were missing), we observed that the group of Spirochaetes and actinobacteria (supported by less than 40%% of BV) is not rejected, while the group of cyanobacteria/aquifex-thermotoga (supported by 40 to 80%% of BV) is rejected.

But on the present view, the former expresses a proposition that has as a constituent a propositional function mapping an object to the proposition that that object is unmarried; the latter does not.

Kilwardby is also responsible for propagating, if not developing, the distinction between material and formal logic, where the former treats of propositions and its parts (namely the categories), while the latter treats the deductive structure of argumentation.

The other propositions failed.

Putting aside the former President's preposterous proposition and despite all the concern over rising temperatures, even Bill Clinton's heated rhetoric won't spare us from a more likely threat: abnormally cold weather.

When asked what he sees as RocketFrog's core value proposition, the former Myspace president said that few have "really pushed incentive-based gaming on the Facebook platform".

Hume famously argued that we cannot infer an 'ought' proposition from an 'is' proposition, because the former introduces "a new relation" of an entirely different kind (T 469).