Sentences with phrase «by logical propositions»

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For Ayer, metaphysical statements are nonsensical because they are not verifiable; for Collingwood, metaphysical statements are not verifiable because they are not propositions, directly describing empirical reality but presuppositions, causing by «logical efficacy» verifiable propositions to arise.

Existing as entertained in experience, propositions not only can be true or false, a capability afforded by their logical subjects, but are in fact true or false (AI 245; PR 11 / 16f, 258/394).

To recapitulate: the two subjects embraced by the proposition, the logical subject in a potential predicative pattern and the prehending, e.g., entertaining subject; the two correlative conditions for the truth and falsity of propositions, the fact that they both «can» and «must» be true or false; the fact that a proposition is a «real possibility» for an «entertaining subject,» gives to the proposition its fundamental trait: according to Whitehead, a proposition is a lure for feeling.3

It is at least one logical order «beyond» the class of entities it describes, and is thus not itself necessarily described by the set of properties it ascribes to the class of propositions it is characterizing.

Truth or falsity is established by means of the anchor that the logical subject has in given fact, but truth value is not intrinsic to the proposition in itself.

The combination of these two elements in Aristotle's theory generate the logical problem of «negative facts,» i.e., affirming actuality of negations, e.g., affirming the fact denoted by the proposition, «The round square does not exist.»

The same proposition can constitute the content of diverse judgments by diverse judging entities respectively..., this requires that the same complex of logical subjects objectified via the same eternal objects, can enter as a partial constituent into the «real» essences of diverse actual entities.

If by the decision of the concrescence of an actual entity, the proposition has been admitted into feeling, then the proposition constitutes a lure of a member of its locus by reason of the germaneness of the complex predicate to the logical subjects, having regard to forms of definiteness in the actual world of that member, and to its antecedent phases of feeling.

«Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality.

«A syllogism is a logical argument (much revered by the ancient Greeks) that makes three propositions, the first two of which (premises) make the third (concluding) statement difficult to deny.

The logical thing to do is to respond to overvaluation by selling stocks since the long - term value proposition has worsened (bringing prices back down to fair value) and to respond to undervaluation by buying stocks since the long - term value proposition has improved (bringing prices back up to fair value).

A straight logical proposition: tree temperature measurements measure leaf temperatures which have been shown by measurements to be stable within a certain range and not correlated strongly with ambient temperature.

Under a logical approach to validation, each prediction that is made by a predictive model is viewed as making a claim about the outcome of a statistical event and this claim is viewed as a logical proposition.