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*Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 1702]
==Definitions==
*1 : something stated: as a : a single declaration or remark : assertion
:b : a report of [[facts]] or opinions
*2 : the [[act]] or [[process]] of stating or presenting [[orally]] or on [[paper]]
*3 : proposition
*4 : the presentation of a theme in a musical composition
*5 : a summary of activity in a [[financial]] account over a particular period of time
*6 : an opinion, comment, or message conveyed indirectly usually by nonverbal means <monuments are statements in form and [[space]] — O. B. Hardison, Jr.>
*7 : an instruction in a computer program
==Media==
A press release, news release, media release, or press '''statement''' is a written or recorded [[communication]] directed at members of the news media for the [[purpose]] of announcing something claimed as having news [[value]]. Typically, they are mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, and/or television networks. Commercial press-release distribution services are also used to distribute them.
The use of a press release is common in the field of [[public relations]], the aim of which is to attract favorable [[media]] [[attention]] to public relations professional's client and/or provide publicity for products or [[events]] marketed by those clients. A press release provides reporters with the basics they need to develop a news story. Press releases can announce a range of news items such as: scheduled events, [[personal]] promotions, awards, news products and [[service]]s, sales and other financial [[data]], accomplishments, etc. They are often used in generating a feature story or are sent for the purpose of announcing news conferences, upcoming events or change in corporation.
A press statement is information supplied to reporters. This is an official statement or account of a news story that is specially prepared and issued to newspapers and other news media for them to make known to the [[public]].
==Logic==
In [[logic]] a statement is a declarative sentence that is either true or false. A statement is distinct from a sentence in that a sentence is only one formulation of a statement, whereas there may be many other formulations [[expressing]] the same statement. The term "statement" may to refer to a sentence or the [[idea]] expressed by a sentence. Philosopher of [[language]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strawson Peter Strawson] has advocated the use of the term "statement" in preference to proposition.
Examples of sentences that are (or make) statements:
:"Socrates is a man."
:"A triangle has three sides."
:"Paris is the capital of Spain."
The first two (make statements that) are true, the third is (or makes a statement that is) false.
Examples of sentences that are not (or do not make) statements:
:"Who are you?"
:"Run!"
:"Greeness perambulates"
:"I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."
The first two examples are not declarative sentences and are therefore (or do not make) statements. The third and fourth are declarative sentences but, lacking [[meaning]], are neither true nor false and therefore are not (or do not make) statements.
==Linguistics==
In the field of linguistics, a sentence —an [[expression]] in natural language— is often defined to indicate a [[grammatical]] and lexical unit consisting of one or more [[words]] that represent distinct [[concepts]]. A sentence can include words [[group]]ed meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request or command.[1]
As with all [[language]] [[expressions]], sentences contain both semantic and logical elements ([[words]], parts of [[speech]]), and also include [[action]] [[symbols]] that indicate sentence starts, stops, pauses, etc. In addition, sentences also contain properties distinct to natural language, such as characteristic intonation and [[timing]] [[patterns]]
.
Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the [[presence]] of a finite verb, e.g. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
==Philosophy==
A proposition is a sentence expressing something true or false. In [[philosophy]], particularly in [[logic]], a proposition is identified [[Ontology|ontologically]] as an [[idea]], [[concept]], or abstraction whose token instances are patterns of symbols, marks, sounds, or strings of words.[1] Propositions are considered to be syntactic [[entities]] and also truthbearers.
The [[existence]] of propositions in the [[abstract]] sense, as well as the existence of "meanings", is disputed by some philosophers. Where the concept of a "meaning" is admitted, its [[nature]] is [[Debate|controversial]].
In earlier [[texts]] writers have not always made it sufficiently clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the "meaning" expressed by the words.[2] To avoid the controversies and ontological implications, the term sentence is often now used instead of proposition to refer to just those strings of [[symbols]] that are truthbearers, being either true or false under an [[interpretation]]. Strawson advocated the use of the term "statement", and this is the current usage in mathematical logic.
[[Category: General Reference]]
[[Category: Logic]]
[[Category: Linguistics]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
*Date: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Century 1702]
==Definitions==
*1 : something stated: as a : a single declaration or remark : assertion
:b : a report of [[facts]] or opinions
*2 : the [[act]] or [[process]] of stating or presenting [[orally]] or on [[paper]]
*3 : proposition
*4 : the presentation of a theme in a musical composition
*5 : a summary of activity in a [[financial]] account over a particular period of time
*6 : an opinion, comment, or message conveyed indirectly usually by nonverbal means <monuments are statements in form and [[space]] — O. B. Hardison, Jr.>
*7 : an instruction in a computer program
==Media==
A press release, news release, media release, or press '''statement''' is a written or recorded [[communication]] directed at members of the news media for the [[purpose]] of announcing something claimed as having news [[value]]. Typically, they are mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to assignment editors at newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, and/or television networks. Commercial press-release distribution services are also used to distribute them.
The use of a press release is common in the field of [[public relations]], the aim of which is to attract favorable [[media]] [[attention]] to public relations professional's client and/or provide publicity for products or [[events]] marketed by those clients. A press release provides reporters with the basics they need to develop a news story. Press releases can announce a range of news items such as: scheduled events, [[personal]] promotions, awards, news products and [[service]]s, sales and other financial [[data]], accomplishments, etc. They are often used in generating a feature story or are sent for the purpose of announcing news conferences, upcoming events or change in corporation.
A press statement is information supplied to reporters. This is an official statement or account of a news story that is specially prepared and issued to newspapers and other news media for them to make known to the [[public]].
==Logic==
In [[logic]] a statement is a declarative sentence that is either true or false. A statement is distinct from a sentence in that a sentence is only one formulation of a statement, whereas there may be many other formulations [[expressing]] the same statement. The term "statement" may to refer to a sentence or the [[idea]] expressed by a sentence. Philosopher of [[language]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strawson Peter Strawson] has advocated the use of the term "statement" in preference to proposition.
Examples of sentences that are (or make) statements:
:"Socrates is a man."
:"A triangle has three sides."
:"Paris is the capital of Spain."
The first two (make statements that) are true, the third is (or makes a statement that is) false.
Examples of sentences that are not (or do not make) statements:
:"Who are you?"
:"Run!"
:"Greeness perambulates"
:"I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."
The first two examples are not declarative sentences and are therefore (or do not make) statements. The third and fourth are declarative sentences but, lacking [[meaning]], are neither true nor false and therefore are not (or do not make) statements.
==Linguistics==
In the field of linguistics, a sentence —an [[expression]] in natural language— is often defined to indicate a [[grammatical]] and lexical unit consisting of one or more [[words]] that represent distinct [[concepts]]. A sentence can include words [[group]]ed meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request or command.[1]
As with all [[language]] [[expressions]], sentences contain both semantic and logical elements ([[words]], parts of [[speech]]), and also include [[action]] [[symbols]] that indicate sentence starts, stops, pauses, etc. In addition, sentences also contain properties distinct to natural language, such as characteristic intonation and [[timing]] [[patterns]]
.
Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the [[presence]] of a finite verb, e.g. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
==Philosophy==
A proposition is a sentence expressing something true or false. In [[philosophy]], particularly in [[logic]], a proposition is identified [[Ontology|ontologically]] as an [[idea]], [[concept]], or abstraction whose token instances are patterns of symbols, marks, sounds, or strings of words.[1] Propositions are considered to be syntactic [[entities]] and also truthbearers.
The [[existence]] of propositions in the [[abstract]] sense, as well as the existence of "meanings", is disputed by some philosophers. Where the concept of a "meaning" is admitted, its [[nature]] is [[Debate|controversial]].
In earlier [[texts]] writers have not always made it sufficiently clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the words or the "meaning" expressed by the words.[2] To avoid the controversies and ontological implications, the term sentence is often now used instead of proposition to refer to just those strings of [[symbols]] that are truthbearers, being either true or false under an [[interpretation]]. Strawson advocated the use of the term "statement", and this is the current usage in mathematical logic.
[[Category: General Reference]]
[[Category: Logic]]
[[Category: Linguistics]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
