Seven questions proposed degrees of agreement with various propositions, including a supplementary risk of cancer for yourself, your family; predisposition to a certain kind of cancer for yourself, your family; a diagnosis of cancer; a vulnerability to environmental factors; a risk of infection.
In the via moderna conception, therefore, the ultimate significata of a term are nothing but those singular things that can be the term's supposita in various propositions, as a matter of semantics.
After a few minutes of individual reflection, the various propositions were noted on the board to help participants reach consensus.
Under the label of unsinnig can be found various propositions: "Socrates is identical", but also "1 is a number" and "there are objects".
The various propositions explained in the chapter are the truth value, conjunction, disjunction, negation, implication (converse, inverse, and contrapositive), order of precedence, tautology, contradiction, and contingency.
Because any statement apparently about a class of individuals involves this sort of higher-order quantification, the truth or falsity of such a proposition will ultimately depend on the truth or falsity of various elementary propositions about its members.
In the interests of space, I've recast just one of the most critical parts of Dreher's argument into the form of various ethical propositions.
Given that Locke's aim, above all, is to discuss what degree of assent we should give to various religious propositions, the older conception of probability very likely serves his purposes best.
So one is apparently forced to reject the assumption that propositions form one type, and hence to require that they ought to have various types, while logical products ought to have propositions of only one type as factors.
It's more plausible to suppose that we first grasp what truth is, and only subsequently figure out what truth-makers are required for the various kinds of propositions there are (Horwich 2009: 188).
