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To be mistaken about the proposition would mean something impossible: I do not exist, but I am still wrong.
As in the diagram above, a true proposition can be believed by an individual ( purple region ) but still not fall within the " knowledge " category ( yellow region ).
Even when the proposition has only two words, the three terms are still there.
They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).
We can't see a proposition like we can a toy car, yet he believed a proposition must still have a pictorial form.
It seems that someone in Europe, for example, would still have good reason to assert this proposition.
" The opposite statement —" Apples are not a type of fruit "— is still a properly formulated proposition, even though it is false ( not a fact ).
At this time, chemistry was still in a quite primitive state: although the atomic theory was accepted, the major elements had been discovered, and techniques to analyse the proportions of the elements in many compounds were in place, it was still a difficult proposition to determine the arrangement of the elements in compounds.
The official name of the city government is still Pryor Creek despite a proposition put before voters in 1963 to change the name.
When Achilles demands that " If you accept A and B and C, you must accept Z ," the Tortoise remarks that that's another hypothetical proposition, and suggests even if it accepts C, it could still fail to conclude Z if it did not see the truth of:
In 2009, the MVV offered a package which would introduce a Semesterticket at a basic fee of € 78. 50 with a premium surchage of € 143. 50, totalling € 222 ; this proposition narrowly fell through after voting was conducted across all the Munich universities as it was still deemed to be too pricey in comparison to the Semesterickets offered by other German cities, with students of the LMU Munich voting 52. 1 % against and 47. 9 % in favour.
The Ego of genius is the truth, if not in the sense in which Kierkegaard would have us understand his proposition, " Subjectivity is the truth ", still in the sense that the Ego has every externally valid commandment and prohibition in its power ; and, to the astonishment and scandal of the world, invariably expresses itself in paradoxes.
Thus Say's law, in its original concept, was not intrinsically linked nor logically reliant on the neutrality of money ( as has been alleged by those who wish to disagree with the law ) because the key proposition of the Law is that no matter how much people save, production is still a possibility as it is the prerequisite for the attainment of any additional goods of consumption.
Similar in principle to his original proposition, this new formulation gave up on the idea of a Palestinian state being formed in Jordan ; while it still has Israel annexing the West Bank, it proposes that the Palestinians would become citizens of Jordan and residents of Israel rather than being re-located ( though it also advocates providing them with a financial incentive to leave of their own accord ).
While considering this proposition, and still waiting to hear from Mackenzie King, in late 1934 Howe agreed to be the Liberal candidate in Port Arthur.
However, they point out that Luce Irigaray might still be correct in asserting that E = mc < sup > 2 </ sup > is a " masculinist " equation, since " the social genealogy of a proposition has no logical bearing on its truth value.
The proposition seemed unlikely, however, because Prada was at the time still a small company and was in debt.
Moon Orchid is still hesitant about Brave Orchid ’ s proposition.
Series 6 was scheduled to begin filming in 2003, but Nick Wilson, of Channel 5, and Raymond Thompson felt that " although the show was still performing well, the cast was getting too old and the series was beginning to stretch the core proposition.
However, Nick Wilson, of Channel 5, and Raymond Thompson eventually decided that although " the show was still performing well, felt that the cast was getting too old that it was beginning to stretch the core proposition.
They are still employed in very high power applications, such as locomotives, where the high power capability of the thyristors and the simplicity of the design can make them a more attractive proposition than transistor based controllers.
By the end of the sessions, the band felt as though they were a still a strong musical proposition even after the loss of Kath.

still and is
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.
nearby, another sits motionless, while still another is twirling an umbrella.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Each is still glorified as a national hero.
This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''
Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.

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