So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind.

Developing new, high-end CPUs is a very costly proposition.

Since they have grown to a rather large size, generating readers and writers has become a very expensive proposition.

A scientifically minded physicalist may, following Andrew Melnyk, accept the first horn of the dilemma ; that is, a physicalist could live with the idea that the current definition of physicalism may very likely end up being false as long as he believes the proposition is more plausible than any currently formulated rival proposition, such as dualism.

As a joke, he said, " It was said to be very hard on His Majesty's ministers to raise objections to this proposition.

Hempel rejected this as a solution to the paradox, insisting that the proposition ' c is a raven and is black ' must be considered " by itself and without reference to any other information ", and pointing out that it "... was emphasized in section 5. 2 ( b ) of my article in Mind ... that the very appearance of paradoxicality in cases like that of the white shoe results in part from a failure to observe this maxim.

Though Huygens felt very strong about his opinion, he made sure that he addressed the issues that would arise with his proposition.

The fallacy of petitio principii, or " begging the question ", is committed " when a proposition which requires proof is assumed without proof ", or more generally denotes when an assumption is used, " in some form of the very proposition to be proved, as a premise from which to deduce it ".

Another is to " bring forth a proposition expressed in words of Saxon origin, and give as a reason for it the very same proposition stated in words of Norman origin ", as in this example: " To allow every man an unbounded freedom of speech must always be, on the whole, advantageous to the State, for it is highly conducive to the interests of the community that each individual should enjoy a liberty perfectly unlimited of expressing his sentiments ".

So, for example, in a world in which exists a materially paradoxical omnipotence, its very paradoxicality seems either to be a material-paradox-of-a-material-paradox, or to be a non-paradox per the proposition that it exists ( i. e., if it exists, then nothing has inherent meaning, including itself ).

Ward was very keen on the idea of ‘ build it yourself ’ having said in response to the proposition of removing all planning laws, ‘ I don't believe in just letting it rip, the rich get away with murder when that happens.

Realizing that a forced union with himself as ruler of a conquered and hostile country would be very uneasy, he accepted the Norwegian proposition.

Walden Two embraces the proposition that the behavior of organisms, including humans, is determined by genetic and environmental variables, and that systematically altering environmental variables can generate a sociocultural system that very closely approximates utopia.

The States of Guernsey ( the island's parliament ) last endorsed the system of consensus government by committees in 2002, when it rejected, by a very significant majority, a proposition to replace the system with executive / cabinet-style government.

This method reached its high point with Euclid's Elements ( 300 BC ), monumental treatise on geometry structured with very high standards of rigor: each proposition is justified by a demonstration in the form of chains of syllogisms ( though they do not always conform strictly to Aristotelean templates ).

The growing family soon moved to the shipbuilding burgh of Govan near Glasgow, where they made a life in a very difficult financial situation, with his father attempting to maintain continuous employment in the shipyards rather than practicing his trade at sea — never an easy proposition given the boom-and-bust cycle of the industry.

The written sentence does have existence ( it has a certain location at a certain time, say it is on your computer screen at this very moment ) and expresses the proposition in itself which is in the realm of in itself ( i. e. an sich ).

The declining sales of Road Runner and other muscle cars were the result of a move by insurance companies to add surcharges for muscle car policies-making insurance premiums for high-performance vehicles a very expensive proposition.

The four-door practicality of the Sprint also made it a very attractive proposition for the young executive choosing his first company car.

The fine-tuned Universe is the proposition that the conditions that allow life in the Universe can only occur when certain universal fundamental physical constants lie within a very narrow range, so that if any of several fundamental constants were only slightly different, the Universe would be unlikely to be conducive to the establishment and development of matter, astronomical structures, elemental diversity, or life as it is presently understood.

Obtaining a warrant or taking other action based solely on steganalytic evidence is a very dicey proposition unless a payload has been completely recovered and decrypted, because otherwise all the analyst has is a statistic indicating that a file may have been modified, and that modification may have been the result of steganographic encoding.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Neither was he very powerful of build.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

It was very widely read, too ; ;

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

Ann was very troubled.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.