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On this view, propositions and propositional functions have an order.
From this point of view, propositions have truth value -- they are either true or false (it is either raining or not) -- or, as Searle prefers, truth conditions -- that is, they are true under certain conditions (i.e., when it really is raining outside).
So it is significant that on Frege's view, propositions do not have subject-predicate form.
According to the second sort of view, propositions are kind of property.
On the Fregean view, propositions are composed of senses, or meanings, or concepts.
On such a view, propositions cannot be sentences or statements or beliefs.
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From a formal point of view, proposition 1 is complete to serve as a protocol of reduction algorithm.
Graham Priest also views propositions in the Heart Sutra and Nagarjuna in this light (2006: ch. 16).
Still, since Zalta views propositions as zero-place relations, we will say something about his views on properties and relations.
Although the Aristotelian system viewed propositions such as the existence of a vacuum to be ridiculously untenable, belief in Divine Omnipotence sanctioned them as possible, whilst waiting for science to confirm them as true.
One standard view of propositions takes propositions to be sets of possible worlds; another takes propositions to have something more closely resembling a linguistic logical structure (see structured propositions for a detailed exposition of this issue).
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