Definitions
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- In the manner of a proposition.
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- adverb In a
propositional manner.
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Examples
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In short, someone who may appear to a more propositionally-based faith-group to be quitting the faith, may in fact be in the process of moving further into it, of following their pilgrimage, and learning to trust God even more.
Doubt and Disbelief in the Pulpit James F. McGrath 2010
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The simple idea is that there are domains of knowledge that are not represented propositionally or as a system of statements, but are rather somehow embodied in the knower's cognitive system in a non-propositional form.
Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009
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I mean mainly a mindset that rejects the idea (defined by “modernity”) that truth is ultimately best understood rationally and propositionally.
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This is at the heart of the disagreement: the diocese believes that culture contributes to the determination of doctrine, whereas ANiC believes doctrine has been revealed by God through the Incarnation and propositionally in the bible; it is not subject to the vagaries of shifting temporal conditions.
Telling moments in the ANiC vs New Westminster trial « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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The simple idea is that there are domains of knowledge that are not represented propositionally or as a system of statements, but are rather somehow embodied in the knower's cognitive system in a non-propositional form.
Tacit knowledge Daniel Little 2009
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For the task here is that of formulating propositionally, and in as illuminating a way as possible, what items need be affirmed as intrinsically good in order to make sense out of our inclinations.
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics Murphy, Mark 2008
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His fundamental interest here lies with the powerful charm, a kind of conceptual magnetism, of reductive explanations that promise a brief, compact, and propositionally-encapsulated account of what some much larger field of thought or action “really” is.
Wittgenstein's Aesthetics Hagberg, Garry 2007
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As it is, the opposition currently consists of a statement that objects to ID propositionally, and is notable for its clear refusal to descend into any kind of personal attack on Gonzalez himself, or his motives, or his qualifications, or his future prospects at ISU.
A Very Odd Statement 2005
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In other words, they arise pre-propositionally or locally.
Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics Jaszczolt, K. M. 2006
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The Russellian propositions that the quoted sentences in (20) and (22) express, on the other hand, are propositionally inconsistent.
Propositional Attitude Reports McKay, Thomas 2005
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