Definition of Proposition

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Proposition

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.

A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.

That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.

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

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Proposition Quotations

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
John Locke

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous Huxley

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume

Proposition Translations

proposition in German is Vorschlag
proposition in Latin is thesis
proposition in Swedish is sats

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