Propositional form X is self-consistent (i.e., X is a self-consistent propositional form) iff it is possible for X to be true. In other words, X is not necessarily false.
Example from everyday life: 'x is taller than y'
Example from categorical logic: 'Some S are P'
Example from propositional logic: '(p ﬤ q) ﬤ p'
Example from predicate logic: '(x)Øx'
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French Kiss (1977).
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Historian Allen Guelzo will be vilified and ostracized for this column. How dare he say positive things about Donald Trump!
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As someone who is a follower of Dr. Martin Luther King, who had the good fortune to meet with him and a few other college students in August 1963, just a week before his “I Have a Dream Speech” speech, I simply can’t let stand President Trump’s denial of his recent racist behavior and comments. Worse, we must not allow sycophants, like Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue to affirm Trump’s denial, to make their own Republican colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham a liar. Trump and his supporters represent everything that Dr. King was not.
On that muggy August afternoon in 1963, which I now remember so well, Dr. King was not a lofty, unapproachable figure but a humble servant of justice whose fatigue was palpable to the college students who gathered around him. He inspired us by his humility and self-sacrifice. When one of us asked him if we should go to the South to join his campaign he replied quietly. He said, “No, go back to your home campuses, talk to your friends and neighbors about what is important to keep the dream of justice and equality alive. That’s how you can be the greatest help to me.”
We simply can’t allow this president’s dishonest words and racist actions to stand. The example Dr. King set, the “Dream” he described is too powerful, too central to what it means to be an American.
— Rev. Dr. David Dodson, Santa Cruz
Today, I was honored and proud to address the 45th Annual @March_for_Life! You are living witnesses of this year’s March for Life theme: #LoveSavesLives. pic.twitter.com/DMST4qhDmp
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2018
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Here are highlights from Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under.
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For Earth Below (1975).
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The terms continental and analytic describe two different schools in philosophy that have been in conflict roughly since the beginning of the twentieth century. The distinction between them is notoriously hard to draw in clear and explicit terms, but philosophers usually have no problem assigning most of their colleagues into one of these two traditions. A provisional self-characterization of the analytic style of doing philosophy is the claim that the analytic approach "involves argument, distinctions, and . . . moderately plain speech." In one of the best historical accounts of the rise and development of analytic philosophy, this approach is described as being committed "to the ideals of clarity, rigor, and argumentation" and to the goal of "pushing rational means of investigation as far as possible." Basically, then, the trademarks of analytic philosophy would be clarity of thought, precision, and logical coherence, as well as the honest and persistent effort to avoid obscurantism, pretentious writing style and false profundity.
(Neven Sesardić, When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics [New York: Encounter Books, 2016], 2 [parenthetical references omitted; ellipsis in original])
