单词 | pseudo-proposition |
释义 | pseudo-propositionn. A spurious proposition; (Philosophy) a sentence, etc., which is presented as meaningful but which can be shown by philosophical analysis to be meaningless. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > types of proposition corollaryc1374 porism?a1425 exclusive1533 exponible1569 exceptive1570 continuative1725 desitive1725 inceptive1725 inceptive proposition1725 limitative1864 pseudo-proposition1883 metaphysics1935 1883 Mind 8 24 It is unnecessary here to occupy space with examples of these three familiar kinds of pseudo-proposition. 1934 Mind 43 335 A pseudo-proposition being a series of words that may seem to have the structure of a sentence but is in fact meaningless. 1966 Philos. Rev. 75 315 In the pseudo-propositions of the Tractatus we see how things really are. 1989 S. G. Shanker in S. G. Shanker Gödel's Theorem in Focus viii. 208 Mathematical expressions can be divided into two classes: real (finitary) propositions.., and ideal (transfinite) pseudo-propositions whose ‘algebraic’ properties facilitate our reasoning about the former. 2001 P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein v. 142 The very argument to establish that the kinds of 'propositions' of which the book consists are illegitimate pseudo-propositions is itself part of the book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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