Sentence examples for whatever propositions from inspiring English sources

According to Williamson's conception of evidence as knowledge, one's experiences are excluded from counting as evidence at best, one's evidence includes whatever propositions about one's experiences that one knows.

For Scotus the natural law in the strict sense contains only those moral propositions that are per se notae ex terminis along with whatever propositions can be derived from them deductively (Ordinatio 3, d.

Given this requirement, the overall presuppositions of a sentence will just be whatever propositions must be in a context of an utterance in order to guarantee that the presuppositions associated with presupposition triggers are satisfied in their local contexts of interpretation.

The conclusion is whatever proposition the argument is trying to show.

Aquinas objects that the differences in the sentences cause them to express different propositions, and so concedes that it is not true that whatever proposition ever expresses what God knows, always expresses what God knows.

I don't think that our propositions are extreme propositions, whatever the subject".

In other words, a true proposition, whatever it happens to be, is implied by any proposition whatsoever, true or false, and a false proposition, whatever it happens to be, implies any proposition whatsoever, true or false.

An indeterminateness in propositions — whatever it might amount to — is supposed to alert us to the need for further analysis.

Picking a fight with Sir Ian Botham has long been a risky proposition whatever the circumstances, but in doing so in the build-up to a Test in Mumbai, Stuart Broad was always going to end up with egg all over his face.

A more controversial class of cases of indeterminism without chances comes from those who reject universalism about chance: the thesis 'that chance of truth applies to any proposition whatever' (Lewis, 1980: 91980

One objection is that, at least on Burley's "standard" theory of positio, if a positum is possible but nevertheless known to be false, the opponent can maneuver the respondent into having to concede any proposition whatever consistent with the positum.