Sentences with phrase «false proposition»

This point would seem to be especially applicable to Whitehead's theory of propositions since false propositions are not condemned to the dust - heap as logicians would have it.

False propositions introduce novelty; they are central to creative emergence; they are the ransom for «creative evolution.»

There are many false propositions that alter the course of history, sometimes for the better.

Because it is interested in the proposition (loves John Jane), the concrescing subject has a number of options depending on the subjective form of its feeling of that false proposition.

Thus a false proposition can still have power as a lure: «It is more important that a proposition be interesting than it be true» (Al 243).

In particular, false propositions would amine our sensitivity to novelty, difference such that a moral life would entail living, as Nietzsche remarked, «beyond good and evil.»

3Greenman is in one respect correct in asserting that a proposition, which is neither signified by a sentence nor realized in any actual world, has the ontological status of a «real possibility»; to be sure, here it is neither a true or false proposition.

The result is that false propositions have fared badly, thrown into the dust heap, neglected» (PR 259/395).

As a result of logicians identifying propositions with judgments, Whitehead tells us that «false propositions have fared badly, thrown into the dustheap, neglected.

Boole devised a way to calculate logical conclusions about propositions using binary numbers; 1 represented a true proposition and 0 a false proposition.

If the circuit plays the role of the proposition, then a false proposition (0) corresponds to a closed circuit; a true proposition (1) corresponds to an open circuit.

Starting in 2005, building on a sequence of events seeking to obtain raw data, leading ultimately to the FOIA events central to the CRU controversy, McIntyre builds an iconoclastic website which at least implicitly supports the false propositions that climate change concerns rest primarily on paleoclimate evidence and that paleoclimate evidence is systematically skewed.

Are we willing to pay the price and change the way we live for a false proposition?