If a Sentence Expresses a Compound Proposition, Is That Proposition

question 28

Multiple Choice

If a sentence expresses a compound proposition, is that proposition, taken as a whole, asserted?

• A)No, because the component propositions are not asserted.
• B)No, because only simple propositions, and not compound ones, can be asserted.
• C)No, because a whole sentence can never be asserted.
• D)Yes, because every declarative sentence, taken as a whole, is asserted.
• E)Yes, because every proposition that is expressed is also asserted.

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Definitions:

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