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A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity. Propositions are also often characterized as the type of object that declarative sentences denote. For instance, the sentence "The sky is blue" denotes the proposition that the ...
[34] Ecumenical interpretations of the wager [35] argues that it could even be suggested that believing in a generic God, or a god by the wrong name, is acceptable so long as that conception of God has similar essential characteristics of the conception of God considered in Pascal's wager (perhaps the God of Aristotle). Proponents of this line ...
For example, the proposition that bachelors are unmarried men is true, in this view, because the concept of the predicate (unmarried men) is contained in the concept of the subject (bachelor). A contemporary reading of the concept-containment theory of truth is to say that every true proposition is an analytically true proposition.
On Sophistical Refutations [1] [2] consists of 34 chapters. The book naturally falls in two parts: chapters concerned with tactics for the Questioner (3–8 and 12–15) and chapters concerned with tactics for the Answerer (16–32). Besides, there is an introduction (1–2), an interlude (9–11), and a conclusion (33–34). [3]
Gettier's examples hinged on instances of epistemic luck: cases where a person appears to have sound evidence for a proposition, and that proposition is in fact true, but the apparent evidence is not causally related to the proposition's truth. In response to Gettier's article, numerous philosophers [3] have offered modified criteria for ...
A form of negation where the negation of a non-true proposition is true, and the negation of a non-false proposition is false. [34] [35] [36] Boolean operator An operator used in logic and computer science that performs logical operations on its operands, such as AND, OR, and NOT. borderline case
Opponents call it a “revenge initiative.”
The law of identity: 'Whatever is, is.' [2]. For all a: a = a. Regarding this law, Aristotle wrote: First then this at least is obviously true, that the word "be" or "not be" has a definite meaning, so that not everything will be "so and not so".