Sentence examples for word proposition from inspiring English sources

For clarity the policy here will be to continue to apply the word "proposition" exclusively to Russellian propositions at the level of reference.

That is to say, such theorists eschew propositions as reference-level entities: of course the word "proposition" may be, and sometimes is, applied to Fregean Thoughts at the level of sense, rather than Russellian propositions at the level of reference.

In the terminology of the new theory, the word "proposition" was used not for an objective metaphysical complex, but simply for an interpreted declarative sentence, an item of language.

The Pope is also understood to have had a hand in drafting the carefully worded proposition by which the matter was put to a vote.

The Republicans spent heavily to place on the ballot a series of deceptively worded propositions that were an assault on California's working middle class.

Since then, Buffett has not uttered a word about Proposition 13. "Warren didn't have to be told — seeing the firestorm his remarks created — that it wasn't an idea whose time had come," said Robert Denham, a Los Angeles lawyer whom Buffett had brought in to help rescue the scandal-plagued Salomon investment bank, in 1991, and who became a Schwarzenegger financial adviser.

I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way".

In other words, a proposition is necessary (or expresses a necessary truth) if, in analyzing it, one arrives at a statement of identities.

In other words, a proposition is contingently true when it is true in that world and false in some other world.

If one holds that a decision model should convincingly represent the subjective perspective of the agent in question, this is arguably a weakness of Jeffrey's theory, although it may be one without consequence.[10] Before proceeding, a word about propositions may be helpful: they are abstract objects that can be either true or false, and are commonly identified with sets of possible worlds.

In other words, the proposition \ \bA \brightarrow \bB\) is just the type of functions from \ \bA\) to \ \bB\): Similarly, all that should be required of a proof \(c\) of the conjunction \ \bA \wedge \bB\) is that it should yield proofs \(x\) and \ y\) of \ \bA\) and \ \bB\), respectively.