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Propositions are true or false. Images are not. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called. -- Thomas Hobbes
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out. -- John Locke
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. -- Cleveland Abbe
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. -- Anish Kapoor
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. -- Talcott Parsons
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. -- Talcott Parsons
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. -- Walt Whitman
Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions. -- Marc Ostrofsky
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. -- Maimonides
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. -- Nassau William Senior
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience. -- Arthur Cayley
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. -- Michael Polanyi
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. -- David Wroblewski
Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat. -- Robert Dallek
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. -- Virchand Gandhi
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. -- Germaine Greer
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them. -- Sam Harris
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary. -- Francis Spufford
I think - something I learned recently looking up the meaning of ideology. If you look in American encyclopedias, it says, you know, 'Rules for - basic rules for a system of economics or politics.' If you look in the Oxford, it says that, and then it says... 'Despite - and people will hold these propositions despite events.' -- Mario Cuomo
Elementary propositions consist of names. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
All propositions are of equal value. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. -- James Buchanan
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. -- Charles de Gaulle
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. -- Wallace Stevens
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover. -- William Shakespeare
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions. -- Alvin Plantinga
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions -- Anatol Rapoport
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. -- Bertrand Russell
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves. -- Stephen King
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter. -- Carl Gustav Hempel
In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier propositions. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. -- Frank Herbert
.. all the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ... -- Margaret Thatcher
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence. -- Lee Strobel
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true. -- C. S. Lewis
I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions. -- Peter Greenaway
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions. -- Richard Posner
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty. -- Gottfried Leibniz
The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions. -- Christina Stead
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such. -- Saul Kripke
Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. -- Dalai Lama
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed. -- John Tillotson
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. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury -- Anish Kapoor
When you keep your day job, all opportunities become surplus propositions rather than deficit remedies. You only have to take the ones that suit your dream best." -- Jon Acuff
If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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. -- Stephen Batchelor
Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day. -- Warren Buffett
Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions. -- Bertrand Russell
Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions. -- Alfred Marshall
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. -- Bertrand Russell
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ. -- J. C. Ryle
The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question. -- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. -- W. H. Auden
Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system. -- Satoru Iwata
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions. -- Jim Palmer
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. -- Francis Bacon
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying. -- Gayle Forman
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. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials. -- Neil Postman
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look. -- Dave Hickey
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant. -- Max Horkheimer
I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine. -- Jonathan Edwards
I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason. -- George H. Smith

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