I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I. ' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.
I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not a sufficient one) that a truthmaker necessitates the proposition it makes true.
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness. "
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.
