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propositional - definition and meaning
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from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective propositions .
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Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities
Medieval Theories of Modality Knuuttila, Simo 2008
Scotus calls the propositional formulations of pure possibilities logical possibilities (possibile logicum).
Medieval Theories of Future Contingents Knuuttila, Simo 2006
Thus mediated through its own other (Rousseau), Hölderlin's voice establishes itself not in propositional form but, instead, motions toward a revelation that is itself perched between an unverifiable past and an anticipated future.
Pfau, Coda & Works Cited' 1999
(The proof requirements in propositional calculus may be stricter; you may be able to derive “p” for “p and q” but not from “q and p” and so on.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ninth Circuit Rodriguez Opinion and Speech in Private Workplaces 2010
Closely connected to belief is the notion of propositional content.
Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009
Frege demanded that what follows the the content stroke must have a content that can become a judgment, which is to say a propositional content.
Him 2009
The so-called propositional attitudes, like believing, knowing and hoping, are said to relate a thinker to a proposition, or at least to be instantiated by mental states that have propositional content.
Him 2009
And this is compatible with the idea of propositional content as splitting the totality of worlds.
Dialetheism Priest, Graham 2008
Dembski cannot deal properly with “specification” in a code because he dare not recognize that nothing indicates genetic information to be propositional , which is more or less what normal scientists would generally mean by “specified information”.
Detecting design: Specification versus Likelihood - The Panda's Thumb 2006
We will call the propositional logics (as defined below) simply logic systems.
Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006
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