Sentence examples for whole propositions from inspiring English sources

The predicate calculus is to be distinguished from the propositional calculus, which deals with unanalyzed whole propositions related by connectives (such as "and," "if... then," and "or").

These logical relations often are thought of as holding between concepts, as opposed to whole propositions.

Whereas Aristotelian logic was applicable to predicates (noun expressions) or classes, the Megarians specialized in a logic of whole propositions.

These differences are that pictorial signs are "motivated"—that is, they visually suggest their meanings and that they express whole propositions rather than single words.

Noncategorical syllogistic is a form of logical inference using whole propositions as its units, an approach traceable to the Stoic logicians but not fully appreciated as a separate branch of syllogistic until the work of John Neville Keynes in the 19th century.

He made the most fruitful usage of this method, however, by applying it to whole propositions.

Third, the notion of "value" (Wert) here clearly means the truth-value of a whole proposition, not its propositional content specifically, which explains why a modal predicate "contributes nothing to the content of a judgment," i.e., it contributes nothing to the specific content of a judgment over and above its truth-value.

"The whole proposition doesn't stack up either.

The thoughts that scurry through the mind: the whole proposition was preposterous.

Of course, the whole proposition had seemed unlikely from the outset.

"Our whole proposition is not without risk, but who can say theirs is without risk?