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Example sentences for "general proposition"

  • So far the proof appealed to a general proposition, and was deductive.

  • As a general proposition, all the available goods in a community are in a process of exchanging against all of the available money and credit in the community.

  • The minimum provisions of a good child labor law have been set forth by the committee somewhat as follows: As a general proposition, no child should be regularly employed in a gainful occupation who is under sixteen years of age.

  • As a general proposition, this strengthened position would tend automatically to result in higher wages.

  • But a general proposition is not merely a compendious form for recording and preserving in the memory a number of particular facts, all of which have been observed.

  • Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.

  • A general proposition, in short, is a proposition about a genus, taken universally.

  • In the second of the above sentences a general proposition is assumed.

  • Thus stated, the truth which was at first observed and affirmed only of particular instances, becomes a general proposition, and may, in turn, become the premiss of a process of deduction.

  • What is there about a general proposition to stimulate exploration?

  • Often we may make the meaning of a general proposition clear by citing specific instances.

  • Using the fourth method of development, we may give an entire composition to the explanation of the meaning of a general proposition or to the demonstration of the truth of such a proposition.

  • We may then redefine inductive reasoning as the process by which from many individual cases we establish the probable truth of a general proposition.

  • Just what this increase in surface area should be is problematical as experienced aviators disagree, but as a general proposition it may be placed at from three to four times the area of a 20-foot glider.

  • As a general proposition it takes much more power to propel an airship a given number of miles in a certain time than it does an automobile carrying a far heavier load.

  • As a general proposition a fairly satisfactory flying machine, one that will actually fly and carry the operator with it, may be constructed for $750, but it will lack the better qualities which mark the higher priced machines.

  • Neither does it make any difference in the character of the induction, whether the process be experiment or ratiocination, and whether the object be to infer a general proposition or an individual fact.

  • Thus the difference between an a priori general proposition and an empirical generalization does not come in the meaning of the proposition; it comes in the nature of the evidence for it.

  • Here is a general proposition of which the truth is undeniable, and yet, from the very nature of the case, we can never give an instance; because any two numbers we may think of are excluded by the terms of the proposition.

  • It is, that we may sometimes know a general proposition in cases where we do not know a single instance of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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