Word Finder - proposition

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The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

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An idea or a plan offered.

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(business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

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In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

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(grammar) A complete sentence.

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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.

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“'Wiktionary is a good dictionary' is a proposition” is a proposition.

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An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

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An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

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A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

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the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

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The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

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To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

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To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

I have entered into a significant proposition bet with a friend.

I do not accept the general proposition.

The proposition came in a tempting hour.

The "brand proposition" was for a more natural product for the target market of "chefs who aim to please."

The true proposition cannot be derived because of its popularity.

Preparatory work on the franchise proposition is under way to facilitate the franchising process.

Last night a proposition was made me on your account and, as you know my principles, I refer it to you.

Each proposition of the decree is carefully tracked to its probable source, and is often found to modify the latter's meaning.

In either case the proposition must be ratified by popular vote at the next general election.

Senior living is not a one-size-fits-all proposition.

By taking fixed conditions for the hypothesis of such a proposition a definite department of mathematics is marked out.

Buying birthday cards, thank-you notes, or party invitations can easily become an expensive proposition.

That branch of biology which is termed morphology is a commentary upon, and expansion of, the proposition that widely different animals or plants, and widely different parts of animals or plants, are constructed upon the same plan.

These designs are often perfect for engagement rings, however actually buying and wearing antique jewelry isn't always a practical or an attractive proposition.

But in spite of this great logical achievement, he continued throughout the discourse to accept Plato's grammatical analysis of all sentences into noun and verb, which indeed applies to the proposition as a sentence but does not give its particular elements.

His central proposition was to the effect that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are the same person, three names thus being attached to one and the same being.

He holds that the true method of research is the analytic, rising from lower to higher notions; yet he sees clearly, and admits, that inductive reasoning, as conceived by Bacon, rests on a general proposition not itself proved by induction.

The legislature is forbidden to create any further debt except for the ordimary current business of the state, unless the proposition he submitted to the voters of the state and approved by a two-thirds majority.

The proposition was rejected (November 17), but Louis-Napoleon saw that it was time to act.

Hypothetical " Syllogisms " are those in which one premise is a hypothetical proposition, the other a categorical.

The distinction is of greater importance than would appear when one realizes how obvious the facts really are, and in practice it happens frequently that speakers claim with success to disprove a proposition by disproving the fact alleged in support of it, or to establish a hypothesis by showing that facts agree with its consequences.

In Newton's method, two angles of constant magnitude are caused to revolve about their vertices which are fixed in position, in such a manner that the intersection of two limbs moves along a fixed straight line; then the two remaining limbs envelop a conic. Maclaurin's method, published in his Geometria organica (1719), is based on the proposition that the locus of the vertex of a triangle, the sides of which pass through three fixed points, and the base angles move along two fixed lines, is a conic section.

Proposition 2.6 let a n l as n and assume also that a n m as n.

Where you learn to play Brazilian guitar chords isn't an either/or proposition.

In gas we seek to defend our market position through focusing on customer service and a value proposition rather than acquiring market share.

Its basic proposition is that neural events are effects of wholly neural or other bodily causal sequences.

Especially uncertain is whether universal schooling for girls is a feasible proposition in strongly patriarchal settings.

When the speakers make a practice of asserting the proposition under these conditions, they become the proposition's truth conditions.

We cannot believe a proposition which we know to be untrue.

Provided the resource is there, community hydro projects can also be a viable proposition.

For some, setting up a home office or working from home is an attractive proposition.

A business that has a well-rounded and established management team is a less risky proposition to a purchaser.

Are spinouts a realistic proposition for the plant sciences in today's environment?

For both gas sufferers and those near and dear to them, this passive control device offers a win-win proposition.

Come up with a unique selling proposition that compels people to link to your site.

We treat our clients well, working with them for the long term to get better results for their business proposition online.

Its extreme expression is represented by the proposition being considered in California to deny schooling to the children of illegals.

The CPGB was equally scornful of the proposition that the ILP would rapidly become the instrument of socialist change.

Unlike a, this proposition is not self-referential; it refers instead to a.

This fact makes programming with vectors a quite distinct proposition from programming with lists, which are purely sequential access.

A new aetiological proposition emerges from the isolation of the new conceptual operator of infantile sexuality and the castration complex.

Climbing down from the big stalagmite was a far stickier proposition than getting to the top.

With several grunts he was up and we were left with the proposition of emulating this apparently supernatural feat from our alpine mentor.

Others, while recognizing the supreme authority of the papal magisterium in matters of doctrine, confine the infallibility to those cases alone in which the pope chooses to make use of it, and declares positively that he is imposing on all the faithful the obligation of belief in a certain definite proposition, under pain of heresy and exclusion from the Church; they do not insist on any special form, but only require that the pope should clearly manifest his will to the Church.

All along mathematics was regarded by Descartes rather as the envelope than the foundation of his method; and the " universal mathematical science " which he sought after was only the prelude of a universal science of all-embracing character.2 The method of Descartes rests upon the proposition that all the objects of our knowledge fall into series, of which the members are more or less known by means of one another.

The theological virtues are founded on faith, in opposition to the natural, which are founded on reason; and as faith with Aquinas is always belief in a proposition, not trust in a personal Saviour, conformably with his idea that revelation is a new knowledge rather than a new life, the relation of unbelief to virtue is very strictly and narrowly laid down and enforced.

Not demonstrable as a theoretical proposition, the immortality of the soul " is an inseparable result of an unconditional a priori practical law."

By 1907 altogether 59 local authorities had examined the proposition of establishing telephone systems after 1899, and licences were granted to local authorities at Brighton, Belfast, Chard, Glasgow, Grantham, Huddersfield, Hull, Portsmouth, Swansea, Tunbridge Wells, Oldham, Scarborough and Hartle - pool, but only six municipalities proceeded with the business.

The general proposition as to a parallelism between individual and ancestral development is no doubt indisputable, but extended knowledge of the very different ontogenetic histories of closely allied forms has led us to a much fuller conception of the mode in which stages in embryonic and larval history have been modified in relation to their surroundings, and to a consequent reluctance to attach detailed importance to the embryological argument for evolution.

He claims originality for his theory that the moral evil is the practical denial of a true proposition and moral good the affirmation of it (see Ethics).