But it did not mean that a discipline had no further need of metaphysics — what, after all, would be the use of empirical methods without propositions to test in the first place?
But, though urinal etiquette forgives a greeting, and the cough might have been a passable alibi for the glance, there was simply no way to return to the scene without propositioning sex, and even in a world in which Spielberg hadn't made "A.I.," that wasn't going to happen.
Hence, Stanley says, "If the hermeneutic fictionalist is correct, then x can bear the propositional attitude of pretense toward a proposition, without it being in principle accessible to x that x bears the propositional attitude of pretense towards that proposition.
There are opinion polls with or without "undecideds" attached (but definitely without any firm proposition to vote on as yet).
But when I looked past the badge, to understand their culture, I realized most of them wanted what we all want--a community where kids can walk to school without being propositioned by prostitutes, where a mother can push her stroller without being solicited by drug dealers from a passing car, where there is a line for the swings at the local park.
China's development over the past decade has spurred an explosive growth in the sex industry, and nowhere is this phenomenon more obvious than in downtown Shenzhen, where it's impossible to walk at night without being propositioned by young prostitutes, who are known as "street angels".
One reason to take the ramified theory of types seriously (even without accepting propositions) is that it can be usefully incorporated into a substitutional theory of quantification.
One limitation of this present study is that the units of analysis focused on individual scientific concepts students were able to associate with the topic-at-hand and to recall at the end of each PBL phase, without connecting propositions demonstrating how the different concepts were linked.
The distinction between acceptance and belief can be supported by appeal to cases in which one accepts a proposition without believing it and cases in which one believes a proposition without accepting it.
Local stations in California, including those owned by CBS and NBC, have covered the proposition without disclosing their corporate contributions.
