proposition
IPA: prɑpʌzˈɪʃʌn
noun
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- Misspelling of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]
verb
- (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
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Examples of "proposition" in Sentences
- The proposition was acecepted.
- The official summary of the proposition was stated.
- Otherwise the proposition is extremely discriminatory.
- The university approved and implemented the proposition.
- But you forget the implied syllogism in the proposition.
- It is the belief that the proposition of theism is false.
- The proposition that is known as the continuum hypothesis.
- Diana is reluctant to the idea, but accepts the proposition.
- So it is not a proposition that the storekeeper is expressing.
- Ferdinando rejected the proposition with scorn and indignation.
- I beg to differ with the said observers and suggest that their proposition is a lot of arrant nonsense.
- Second – if the proposition is accurate, the fact that somebody is wasting their time writing about it seems even more absurd.
- This notion roughly corresponds to what we call a proposition and it is expressed linguistically in subordinate clauses [daÃ-Sätzen] or in the infinitive form (the being p of S).
- Suppose we use the term proposition 'to denote the things that are true or false in the primary sense, leaving it open just what they are and in particular whether or not they are all sentences.
- “( n) ¦” with the proposition ¦ “There are two foreign words on this page”,™ which doesn't provide the grammar of the former ˜proposition,™ but only indicates an analogy in their respective rules.
- She says we should have been talking tonight about how to reach the targets that have been set for us by the scientific community, not whether we should do it [good point, except that the proposition is about "mankind's defining crisis", not whether we should tackle climate change].
- In his analysis of the Liar paradox, Russell assumed that there exists a true entity ” the proposition ” that is presupposed by a genuine statement (e.g., when I say that Socrates is mortal, there is a fact corresponding to my assertion and it is this fact that is called ˜proposition™).