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An opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.
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In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judicial tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.
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To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
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To decree or announce as a sentence.
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A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.
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a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought.
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A grammatically independent unit of expression. A simple sentence contains a subject and a predicate. Sentences are classified according to structure (simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex) and purpose (declaratory, interrogatory, imperative, ex
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a grammatical unit that includes both a subject and a predicate. The end of a sentence is marked by a period.
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Keywords: Iff, Proposition, False, True, Logic
a logical truth iff there is no interpretation which makes it false
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an explanation iff it semantically expresses an explanatory proposition
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a priori iff its intension is true at all scenarios
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a statement or proposition if its content is capable of being verified to be true or false
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To utter sententiously.
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syntactic structure of an utterance.
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a linguistic object consisting in a sense perceptible string of markings formed according to a culturally arbitrary set of syntactical rules, a grammatically well-formed string of spoken or written scratchings/sounds
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an important syntactic structure
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Keywords: Wff, Variable, Free, Freely, Truth
a closed wff
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a WFF in which no variable occurs freely, and can be assigned a truth value
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a wff with no "free" variables, i
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a WFF without free variables
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a complete and coherent communication that starts with a capital letter and ends with a period
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a series of statements terminated by a period (a
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In music a sentence is "the smallest period in a musical composition that can give in any sense the impression of a complete statement." It "may be defined as a period containing two or more phrases, and most frequently ending with some form of perfect cadence."
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