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I say in [the] Tractatus that you can't say anything about [the] structure of atomic prop [osition] s: my idea being the wrong one, that logical analysis would reveal what it would reveal.
Wittgenstein's Logical Atomism Proops, Ian 2007
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Democrats should go public with a new platform that sympathizes with the pro-life p osition, and states a desire to work together across party lines towards abortion prevention while preserving a woman's right to choose.
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The legislation, which was originally aimed at strenthening the osition of school governing bodies, had been denuded by the radical amendments proposed by the national education department and the ANC.
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This conception was attained by a progressive dissociation of the two hitherto intimately related components of the idea of axiom (self-evident and primary prop - osition).
AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968
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A judgment is normally expressed by means of a prop - osition, and a proposition, such as “the earth is round,” had two fundamental terms, the subject (the earth) and the attribute (round).
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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The last prop - osition is the most important, for Condorcet realizes the limitations of eighteenth-century medicine and looks to the future for the reliable data needed for prolongevity.
LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968
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The first approaches had been made in the summer of 1944, when the mass deportation of Hun - garian Jewry had taxed the capacity of the Auschwitz crematoria to such an extent that the idea of selling their lives for cash and goods, took hold as an acceptable prop - osition in the higher echelons of the SS.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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In short, as the Marshall town humorist explained in the columns of the Advance, 'the prop - osition that the Manton house is badly haunted is the only logical conclusion from the premises.'
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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