Sentence examples for which propositions from inspiring English sources

In an unsuccessful effort to ascertain at least which propositions are unsolvable, the English mathematician and logician Alan Turing rigorously defined the loosely understood concept of an algorithm.

Abstract systems of logic have been constructed that employ three truth-values (e.g., true, false, and indeterminate) or even many, as in fuzzy logic, in which propositions have values between 0 and 1.

A deeply proud and devout Jew like Claude Montefiore -- to take only one example -- could deplore the entire Zionist scheme because it "assumes that the Jewish race constitutes a 'nation,' or might profitably become a nation, both of which propositions I deny".

His Socratic world often resembles a sanitized version of reality; Xenophon created a fictive history in which propositions about the pursuit of virtue though they derive authority from being rooted in the past acquire either a mythical aura or an intriguing piquancy through the use of a deviant version of that past.

Consider the modal facts about which propositions are contingent.

There is a view according to which propositions are sets of worlds.

The first step was for students to break into groups to discuss and choose which proposition they wanted to work on.

In such cases, the context of utterance plays a role in determining which proposition the sentence expresses.

In this case, none of the machinery on which Proposition 7 is based can be applied.

On Stalnaker's account, to determine just which proposition is ascribed by a particular belief report, we must answer three questions.

A significant complication is that in ordinary conversation, the context matters with regard to which proposition is expressed with a given sentence.