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- Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true.
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Dec 19, 2005 · The term ‘proposition’ has a broad use in contemporary philosophy. It is used to refer to some or all of the following: the primary bearers of truth-value, the objects of belief and other “propositional attitudes” (i.e., what is believed, doubted, etc. ), the referents of that-clauses, and the meanings of sentences.
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a proposition is a claim about how things are—it represents the world as being some way; it is true if the world is that way, and otherwise it is false. This idea
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Aug 11, 2006 · More generally, in what circumstances, exactly, is evidence of evidence (for some proposition) evidence for that proposition (Fitelson 2012, Feldman 2014)? Questions about the nature and bearing of higher-order evidence are topics of active research.
In philosophy, evidence has been taken to consist of such things as experiences, propositions, observation-reports, mental states, states of affairs, and even physiological events, such as the stimulation of one’s sensory surfaces.
Reasoning involves claims or statements—making them and backing them up with reasons, drawing out their consequences. Propositions are the things we claim, state, assert. Propositions are the kinds of things that can be true or false. They are expressed by declarative sentences.
In this chapter we take a deeper look at the way propositions are expressed in Coq and at the structure of the logical evidence that we construct when we carry out proofs. Some of the concepts in this chapter may seem a bit abstract on a first encounter.
Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true . What role evidence plays and how it is conceived varies from field to field.
