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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.
— William Shakespeare
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
— Carl Gustav Hempel
All propositions are of equal value.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions.
-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements — Ikechukwu Joseph
-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements — Ikechukwu Joseph
Elementary propositions consist of names.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
— Stephen King
You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
— Mortimer J. Adler
In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier propositions.
— Paul Zane Pilzer
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
— Charles De Gaulle
But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.
— Karen Armstrong
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
— Milton Friedman
A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument
— Andrew Pettegree
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
— Alvin Plantinga
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ...
— Margaret Thatcher
Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Propositions are true or false. Images are not.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
— Bertrand Russell
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
— Aleister Crowley
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
— Gottfried Leibniz
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
— E. Stanley Jones
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
— Frank Herbert
Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.
— Mortimer J. Adler
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
— Anatol Rapoport
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.