When our hermeneutical charity is thwarted, we suspend belief not in a proposition but in a putative proposition's being a proposition, or in a verbal formula's expressing a proposition.
A sequence of words arranged in a specific way, which may or may not actually express a meaningful claim.
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
Third, if a proposition appears under careful scrutiny to be or entail a contradiction, then is there even a proposition before the mind? If you require for x’s salvation that x believe that God is one and God is three, what exactly are you demanding that x believe? Before x can affirm a proposition as true x must understand it, but how can x affirm as true a proposition that appears necessarily false? Such a ‘proposition’ is arguably not a proposition at all. God is simple but free appears to be in like case. As a matter of pure logic, there are of course necessarily false propositions: take ...