Accordingly, it is logically impossible to conclusively verify a
universal proposition, but a single counter-instance conclusively falsifies the corresponding universal law.
"What I see at the moment, and what I'm very interested in with Wang Jianwei's work is that it's not making a proposition for China or for understanding China," Berghuis says, "but rather a more
universal proposition for considering art and this particular moment through time.
Equally brooding, each brief, epigrammatic text declares its author's truth concerning the thinning of existence or our impaired knowledge of it: a
universal proposition that the photograph can only particularize.
In itself it is not a law; it is a formula by which a particular form of generalization or law can be made, namely, a
universal proposition (43) The
universal proposition or universal law is of the if-then variety and suggests a causal relationship.
There is no antecedent
universal proposition which can be laid down because of which the functions of a state should be limited or expanded."
The second objection grants that the modal facts need explaining, but asks why they cannot be explained by means of a simple addition to the deflationist account of all the relevant modal propositions (if the theory is infinite) or of some appropriate modal
universal proposition (if the theory is finite).(22)
In a commensurately
universal proposition, the subject and predicate are convertible, that is, if the proposition is true, the converse is also true.
Ignoring the problems with universality mentioned above, suppose we were in possession of a true
universal proposition covering dynamical systems which did not express any regularity of these systems.
Recall that epistemonikon, the faculty by which
universal propositions are comprehended, is, unlike any material entity, unchanging; it does not move (ou kineitai).
universal propositions. They cannot be falsified by a single exception.' Friedman admits that the correspondences between economic growth and various measures of moral progress are not precise.
By 'complete knowledge' Muslim philosophers of science mean knowledge of the essential nature of all things comprised in the domain of reality under study, including knowledge of the relationships between them formulated in the form of laws or
universal propositions. This knowledge is arrived at through a long process and this process has been described earlier.