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Proposition

Propositions are the meanings of declarative sentences, objects of beliefs, and bearers of truth values. They explain how different sentences, such as the English "Snow is white" and the German "Schnee ist weiß", can have identical meaning by expressing the same proposition. Similarly, they ground the fact that different people can share a belief by…

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Proposition

Nodes199
Edges198
Triples165
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01005
Components1

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Proposition

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related to history · 17
Proposition → Aristotle, As, BCE, CE, Chinese, Greek, He, Hellenistic, His, In, India, Mohism, Nyaya, Plato, Stoic, Stoicism, The
related to Definition and roles · 16
Proposition → Accordingly, Declarative, Different, English, German, However, In, Instead, Is, Open, Philosophers, Propositions, Schnee, Snow, The, They
related to Possible worlds · 14
Proposition → Accordingly, David Lewis, For, France, If, It, Nairobi, One, Other, Paris, Possible, Robert Stalnaker, The, This
related to Types · 14
Proposition → Affirmative, Both, For, If, In, Many, Philosophers, Santa Claus, Socrates, They, This, Universal, Unlike, Various
related to Logic · 13
Proposition → For, Formal, If, It, Logic, Logicians, Other, Propositional, Propositions, The, Therefore, To, Truth
related to Ontological categories · 12
Proposition → According, Cambridge, If, Jupiter, Many, Moon, Properties, Property-based, Relations, The, These, True Cambridge
related to Paradoxes · 10
Proposition → Because, Conversely, For, However, If, It, Moon, So, The, The Curry
related to Realism and anti-realism · 10
Proposition → According, Another, Anti-realists, For, Moderate, Non-reductive, Realism, Reductive, Some, They
related to Linguistics and philosophy of language · 9
Proposition → Another, For, In, Linguistics, Naomi, Pegasus, Sentences, The, They
related to Other theories · 9
Proposition → Abundant, According, Eternalism, For, If, Richard Nixon, Sparse, Temporalism, US

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propositions truth true possible false sentences different entities example meaning one propositional like view mental sentence worlds also meanings beliefs

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Propositionis aset of all possible worlds in which it is true since it expresses information that they all have in common0.90text
Propositionis afunction that takes a possible world as input and yields a truth value as output0.90text
Propositionis aentity that makes the proposition true0.90text
Propositionis aset of possible truthmakers0.90text
beliefinstance ofstudying propositional attitudes0.80text
desireinstance ofstudying propositional attitudes0.80text
and intentioninstance ofstudying propositional attitudes0.80text
what is possibleinstance ofModal logics introduce operators to capture the logical form of propositions about topics0.80text
necessaryinstance ofModal logics introduce operators to capture the logical form of propositions about topics0.80text
what is allowedinstance ofModal logics introduce operators to capture the logical form of propositions about topics0.80text
prohibitedinstance ofModal logics introduce operators to capture the logical form of propositions about topics0.80text
what is believedinstance ofModal logics introduce operators to capture the logical form of propositions about topics0.80text

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