The Contents of the Sentence and its Role in the Proposition

The sentence is a whole predicative compound that reports beyond reality and hence it has the ability to be true and false. What is the basis of the proposition and what separates it from other sayings is approval or disapproval of the ratio between the two sides of the proposition? Scholars, despite accepting the central role of the sentence in the proposition, disagree about the nature of this element of the proposition. Most of them, following Aristotle, consider the sentence to be the abstraction of ratio (equivalent to affirmation and negation). Some other scholars have considered the sentence not as acknowledgment of occurrence and nonoccurrence, but as perception of occurrence and non-occurrence. Some have interpreted the sentence in a way that is equivalent to acknowledging the meaning of "imagination following the rule". Others believe that the sentence, on the one hand, is the acknowledgment of the soul in ratio to the proposition and, on the other hand, the mental form of the external relation. The following article examines these perspectives and shows that the best analysis of the nature of the sentence is the final one. The present paper, while examining the above views, shows that the best analysis on the nature of the sentence is the final one. According to which, the sentence is "belief in the approval or disapproval of the ratio of the proposition, which also indicates the reality of the relationship outside itself.