Questions tagged [propositions]
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How did Aristotelian logic view this?
I am very interested in the logical aspect of Aristotelian philosophy, especially how it was used by al Farabi and Ibn Sina in explaining understanding and breaking this complicated process down ...
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Why don't two equivalent propositions contribute to the same semantics?
We often have 2 propositions that have the same truth table, in that they are true and false given the same conditions.
Nevertheless, we still feel as though there different semantics (i.e meaning..),...
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Russell on Negative Facts
Okay. I am reading Russell's paper "On Propositions: What They are and How They Mean". Since the truth or falsehood of a belief depends upon a fact to which the belief "refers", and propositions are ...
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Can the material conditional be used in other situations?
Can the material conditional in classical logic (e.g. propositional logic or predicate logic like first-order logic) be used to reason about propositions that are not factual? E.g., using a ...
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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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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 division of propositions by their modality comprehensive?
I call division of any concept comprehensive if the combination of concepts received by such division has a scope congruent (containing exactly the same objects) to the scope of the divided concept.
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partial fictionalism about propositions
One theory of propositions is that they're "useful fictions." However, this faces the formidable objection that fictionalism makes it hard to explain how something fictional can tell us about the ...
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If logical propositions aren't tautologies (a la Wittgenstein), then what could they be?
This is a historical question about philosophical views. I believe I understand the claim made by Wittgenstein and others that logical propositions are tautologies. I'd like to know what other views ...
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Create a statement in propositional logic. This statment must have 2 attributes. (The attributes are specified in the top header)
The following are the 2 attributes: (1) This statement claims the statement after it is true. (2) This statement cannot be not true.
This statement would achieve these 2 attributes through its wording....
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Is saying "I propose that..." expressing a proposition or not?
i'm trying to find out how to accurately express propositions, but i can't find the right words. If i say something like... "I propose that the detective was bias.", does this make sense as ...
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Can one only believe in perceptions?
In the following example provided by SEOP, Kai is said to believe a proposition:
for example, when Kai reads that astronomers no longer classify Pluto as a planet, he acquires a new belief (in this ...
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