Sentences with phrase «since false propositions»

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.

And since any false proposition of the form «It is (logically) possible that...» is contradictory, Premise X is logically false.

Not exact matches

Propositions — which are not Entities in the primary sense — appear also to satisfy the characteristic, supposedly peculiar to Entities, of admitting contrary qualities, since the proposition that someone is sitting passes from true to false when the person stands up.

Since it is more important for a proposition to be interesting than true, the traditional regard for propositions as the matter for judgments and the bias towards truth (even the expression «truth - value» is prejudiced against false propositions) has nearly dealt a fatal blow to the understanding of propositions» dynamic role in the universe.

-- The theory of true and false propositions — Epicurus — tends only to confuse the issue here, since essence and not being is reflected upon, and in this way no help is given with respect to the characterization of the future.)

But if the reason to do so is the claim that it uniquely identifies individuals who are vulnerable to ideologically motivated reasoning, or identifies ones who are disproportionately vulnerable (clearly Jost is espousing something like this), then that proposition is, in my view, demonstrably false, since individuals whose outlooks are negatively correlated w / «authoritarian personality» — «liberals,» «egalitarians» & so forth — are plainly, obviously, indisputably subject to ideologically motivated reasoning.

Since at most all but one of the mutually contradictory propositions will be false, the assignation of probability close to one of the others being true is shown to be erroneous.