Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word PROPOSITION

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Definitions of PROPOSITION

1. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
2. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
3. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
4. Misspelling of preposition.
5. (grammar) A complete sentence.
6. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
7. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
8. (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
9. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
10. (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
11. (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 is connected by a copula.
12. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.

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Examples of Using PROPOSITION in a Sentence

• In mathematics, a conjecture is a conclusion or a proposition that is proffered on a tentative basis without proof.
• Corroborating evidence tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some initial evidence, therefore confirming the proposition.
• More generally it's also a simple valid argument form, this means that if the premise is true, then the conclusion is also true as any rule of inference should be, and an immediate inference, as it has a single proposition in its premises.
• In logic, the law of excluded middle or the principle of excluded middle states that for every proposition, either this proposition or its negation is true.
• This informal fallacy should be distinguished from that of begging the question, which offers a premise whose plausibility depends on the truth of the proposition asked about, and which is often an implicit restatement of the proposition.
• The fallacy is committed when one asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or a proposition is false because it has not yet been proven true.
• In statistics, the likelihood principle is the proposition that, given a statistical model, all the evidence in a sample relevant to model parameters is contained in the likelihood function.
• In mathematics and other fields, a lemma (: lemmas or lemmata) is a generally minor, proven proposition which is used as a stepping stone to a larger result.
• In logic, the semantic principle (or law) of bivalence states that every declarative sentence expressing a proposition (of a theory under inspection) has exactly one truth value, either true or false.
• In logic, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or the validity of a proposition by showing that assuming the proposition to be false leads to a contradiction.
• He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages.
• Thompson traveled the country wagering at cards, dice games, golf, shooting, billiards, horseshoes and proposition bets of his own devising.
• This means that any proposition whatsoever can be endlessly (infinitely) questioned, resulting in infinite regress.
• This derivation justifies the so-called "logical" interpretation of probability, as the laws of probability derived by Cox's theorem are applicable to any proposition.
• In some countries, it is synonymous with and also known as plebiscite, votation, popular consultation, ballot question, ballot measure, or proposition.
• The term's antonyms include agreement, consensus (when all or nearly all parties agree on something) and consent (when one party agrees to a proposition made by another).
• According to Ockham a consequence is a conditional proposition, composed of two categorical propositions by the terms 'if' and 'then'.
• In law, a citation or introductory signal is a set of phrases or words used to clarify the authority (or significance) of a legal citation as it relates to a proposition.
• A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity.
• He rejects Varro's proposition that the Sabines named the hill after the nearby Aventus river; likewise, he believes that the Aventinus who was fathered by Hercules on Rhea Silvia was likely named after the Aventine Hill.

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