The very proposition was sacrilege.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, " conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The proposition that special operations by the CIA in Saudi Arabia affected the prices of Soviet oil was refuted by Marshall Goldman — one of the leading experts on the economy of the Soviet Union — in his latest book.

This was so novel a proposition at the time that it got picked up and published by Newsweek and also covered by Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News.

This made investing in the Docklands a significantly more attractive proposition and was instrumental in starting a property boom in the area.

Because this geometrical interpretation of multiplication was limited to three dimensions, there was no direct way of interpreting the product of four or more numbers, and Euclid avoided such products, although they are implied, e. g., in the proof of book IX, proposition 20.

The particle nature is more easily discerned if an object has a large mass, and it was not until a bold proposition by Louis de Broglie in 1924 that the scientific community realised that electrons also exhibited wave – particle duality.

He resented the suggestion ( from a man in North Carolina ) that " the Light and Spirit of God ... was not in the Indians ", a proposition which Fox refuted.

Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary noted: " Marshal Stalin as a negotiator was the toughest proposition of all.

A standing army was an expensive proposition to a medieval ruler.

In the end, Akzo decided the process was not a viable commercial proposition, and shut down their research at the end of 1994.

The third step from political economy to economics was the introduction of marginalism and the proposition that economic actors made decisions based on margins.

" Wittgenstein was insisting that a proposition and that which it describes must have the same ' logical form ', the same ' logical multiplicity ', Sraffa made a gesture, familiar to Neapolitans as meaning something like disgust or contempt, of brushing the underneath of his chin with an outward sweep of the finger-tips of one hand.

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

In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".

This was the regress argument, whereby every proposition must rely on other propositions in order to maintain its validity ( see the five tropes of Agrippa the Sceptic ).

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame ( STA-099 ) that had been created as a test article.

Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.

Schopenhauer used Jones's authority to relate the basic principle of his philosophy to what was, according to Jones, the most important underlying proposition of Vedânta.

* Repudiation of absolute beneficial title of all lands: The majority in Mabo also rejected the proposition that immediately upon the acquisition of sovereignty, absolute beneficial ownership of all the lands of the Colony vested in the Crown.

The controversial proposition immediately cut tax revenues and required a two-thirds supermajority to raise taxes.

From the Aristotelian proposition we cannot immediately infer the truth or falsehood of any particular proposition, but only the impossibility of believing both affirmation and negation at the same time.

# A proposition is branded heretical when it goes directly and immediately against a revealed or defined dogma, or dogma de fide ; erroneous when it contradicts only a certain ( certa ) theological conclusion or truth clearly deduced from two premises, one an article of faith, the other naturally certain.

Nyíri's proposition was immediately criticised by Ottó Gyürk, pointing to the fact that with such a permissive deciphering method one can get anything out of the code.

After the collapse of the miners ' strike in March 1985, St. Helens was but one of dozens of towns in the UK that was immediately set to lose a long standing employer owing to the government maintaining that the deep mining of coal was no longer an economically viable proposition in most British coalfields.

It is, perhaps, also immediately obvious that if we have analysed judgment we have solved the problem of truth ; for taking the mental factor in a judgment ( which is often itself called a judgment ), the truth or falsity of this depends only on what proposition it is that is judged, and what we have to explain is the meaning of saying that the judgment is a judgment that a has R to b, i. e. is true if aRb, false if not.

An ' A ' type proposition can only be immediately inferred by conversion when both the subject and predicate are distributed, as in the inference " All bachelors are unmarried men " from " All unmarried men are bachelors ".

Some Christian theologians ( particularly neo-Scholastics ) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God — on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism — a proposition which Cantor vigorously rejected.

The Swiss electorate rejected a government proposition to deploy Swiss troops as UN peacekeepers ( the Blue Helmets ) in 1994.

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.

Therefore, Y has rejected X's proposition.

Nestorius rejected this proposition, answering that, because the human soul was based on the archetype of the Logos, only to become polluted by the Fall, Jesus was " more " human for having the Logos and not " less ".

This four-cornered argumentation systematically examined and rejected the affirmation of a proposition, its denial, the joint affirmation and denial, and finally, the rejection of its affirmation and denial.

Calonne's proposition was rejected outright by the notables, and, as a result, Louis XVI dismissed him.

As of December 2005, the Chechen parliament voted to rename the city Akhmadkala after Akhmad Kadyrov, a proposition which was rejected by his son Ramzan Kadyrov, the prime minister and later president of the republic.

Papandreou rejected the king's proposition, although he had initially shown some willingness to accept it, and submitted his own resignation, stating that it was well within his constitutional powers as the elected prime minister commanding a Parliamentary majority to appoint his ministers at his pleasure, and it was beyond the constitutional powers of the king to refuse him this right.

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.

The proposition was rejected when Daimler-Benz threatened to pull out of its 1957 marketing and distribution agreement, which would have cost Studebaker-Packard more in revenue than they could have made from the badge-engineered Packard.

LP Manuel had the folly to propose that the president of the Assembly should have the same authority as the president of the United States ; his proposition was at once rejected, but Pétion got the nickname of " Roi Pétion ," which contributed to his fall.

This proposition being rejected by his fellow-officers, he betrayed the proceedings to Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport, who passed on the information indirectly to John Pym in April.

Bertrand Russell famously rejected Frege's sense-reference distinction, though there is some possibility that the two were misinterpreting and arguing past one another: Frege talks about ( for example ) sentences, which have both a sense ( a proposition ) and a reference ( a truth value ); Russell on the other hand deals directly with propositions, but construes these not as abstract para-linguistic items but as tuples, or sets, of objects and concepts.

His proposition was rejected.

Lü Zhi rejected Modu's proposition humbly because she dreaded the Xiongnu's military power, and replied as follows:

The Armenians wanted to have the conversations held in French, but other delegates rejected this proposition.

Falsification is one of the most rigorous tests to which a scientific proposition can be subjected: if just one observation does not fit with the proposition it is considered not valid generally and must therefore be either revised or rejected.

Yet in a referendum the following May the population ( or at least the 18. 6 % that voted ) rejected this proposition, which represented a blow for the government.

The proposition of a new flag was rejected by the FRELIMO-led parliament in December 2005.

While 46. 33 % of eligible voters, or 73, 959 ballots, approved this measure to increase the Clark County sales tax by 0. 3 % ( from the current 7. 7 %) to continue the funding of the public transportation, 53. 67 % ( 85, 684 votes ) rejected the proposition.

Rosewall, during the Challenge Round of the Davis Cup, tried to convince his partner Hoad to do the same, but he rejected the proposition.