MODR 1711 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Relative Pronoun, Dependent Clause
30 Sep 2015
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It is a complete thought, normally expressed in a complete sentence, making a statement that is either true or false. When an individual engages in reasoning, the units of thought are propositions. Propositions, and the sentences that express them, must have a subject and a predicate. The subject term refers to some thing or class of things, and the predicate says what the subject is or does. A proposition is the thought that a sentence expresses, while a sentence is the linguistic vehicle used to express it, and an individual word is the linguistic vehicle used to express a concept. The term statement is understood to mean a proposition as expressed linguistically. Should two sentences that only differ in one word express the same concept, then the two sentences assert the same proposition. Should the words express different concepts, then the sentences assert different propositions.
