Questions tagged [propositions]
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Is "thoughts exist" a synthetic a priori statement?
I'm working off of Kant's conception of analytic/synthetic and a prior/a posteriori judgements.
The definition of "thoughts" does not subsume their existence. That is, it is logically ...
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Is it defensible to claim that religion is a personal relationship with God and therefore contains no claims?
It is a common line of argumentation against religion that it includes dogmatic claims without evidence and that the resistance to change that is peculiar to religion and stems from its dogmatism ...
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On Truth and Lying
If A, consciously, reports false data to B, and B (or anyone else) has no way to verify, then no one can make the statement, "A lied". So, there exists no such person with respect to whom A lied.
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When it comes to the coherence theory of truth, is it still always assumed that only assertions/propositions enter into the truth relation?
Sometimes, we do use truth-talk in such a way as makes it seem like we might be attributing truth to things that aren't assertions/descriptions/propositions/w/e. There is, for example, the phrase &...
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Does Kant implicitly (or maybe even explicitly?) hold to a propositional-operator gloss of aesthetics?
Now sometimes it is said that knowledge is primarily knowledge-that, i.e. some elementary epistemic operator is a propositional operator/"attitude report". Or at least there is an invoked ...
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Is there any self-contradiction in this statement that "everything is beautiful"?
'Everything is beautiful.'
If you deny the proposition of 1), it is 'something is not beautiful'.
The proposition 'something is not beautiful', which comes from 2), is included in 'everything'.
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How does one differentiate epistemological and ontological claims?
I'm taking an introductory philosophy course and I find it fascinating. I can't really figure out an assignment though because I'm a bit foggy on what the difference between ontological and ...
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A question on the belief operator in Doxastic Logic
Let Bp be the statement "it is believed that p".
Why is ~Bp not equivalent to B~p?
in words it amounts of saying that: "it's not believed that p" equivalent to "it's believed ...
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Is there a recognized topic in philosophy regarding the fallaciousness of debating what the ‘correct’ definition of a word is?
Or, what the defining properties of some thing are.
For example, I might say, “Socialism is a government in which such-and-such happens,” and someone else might say, “No, socialism is when a society ...
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Is atheism a proposition?
Theism proposes the existence of God. Atheism makes no proposition, it is simply the absence of a belief in God. Theism is the proposition. Atheism is the negation. The negation is not a proposition. ...
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How should an argument containing an exceptive proposition be tested?
IX. Exceptive Propositions in 7.3 Translating Categorical Propositions into Standard Form in Copi's Introduction to Logic says:
Because exceptive propositions are not categorical propositions but
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What distinctions between Exclusive vs Exceptive Propositions have I overlooked?
Abbreviate 'Standard Form Categorical Propositions' to SFCP and 'Ordinary Statements' to OS.
Source: p 256-257, A Concise Introduction to Logic (12 Ed, 2014) by Patrick Hurley.
The textbook did not ...
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Confused On The Definition Of A Proposition
One definition I encountered was something that is either true or false.
(for example, I ate vegetables yesterday is a proposition).
Another definition I encountered is the meaning of a sentence
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What's the difference between analytic and synthetic AND implicit/explicit?
The statement 'a bachelor is an unmarried man' is an implicit and analytic statement.
What is the difference between implicit/explicity and analytic/synthetic? Is there even a difference?
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"This statement is false" is neither true or false... Am I correct?
I have no background in philosophy. So I apologize if this question seems silly.
The reason "This statement is false" is sometimes considered to be a statement that can be evaluated as ...
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