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Definition of Proposition

1. Verb. Suggest sex to. "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"

2. Noun. (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false.

3. Noun. A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection. "It was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"

4. Noun. An offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors).

5. Noun. The act of making a proposal. "They listened to her proposal"

6. Noun. A task to be dealt with. "Securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition"

Definition of Proposition

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

Definition of Proposition

1. Noun. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. ¹

2. Noun. An idea or a plan offered. ¹

3. Noun. (countable business settings) The terms of a transaction offered. ¹

4. Noun. (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. ¹

5. Noun. (countable US politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. ¹

6. Noun. (countable mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. ¹

7. Noun. (countable mathematics) As a special case, textbooks often, and papers sometimes, label an assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be a theorem, a proposition. Normally this is part of a numerical reference system ('''Proposition 3.2''', '''Lemma 3.3''', '''Theorem 3.4''') ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To propose a plan to (someone). ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To propose some illicit behaviour to (someone). Often sexual in nature. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Proposition

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proposition

proportionments proportions propos'd proposal proposal of marriage proposals propose propose a toast proposed proposer

proposers proposes proposing proposita propositi propositional propositional attitude propositional calculus propositional function propositional functions

propositional logic propositional variable propositionally propositioned propositioning propositions propositive propositus propound

Literary usage of Proposition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"Now a proposition to be such must be true or else false, while a prepositional function, say, x is a number, though it has the form of a proposition is not ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Every proposition is on the same footing in this respect, since it must needs be a statement about an ' idea,' and every idea exists. ..."

3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"erception of agreement or disagreement between ideas, the proposition is the putting ... Does such or such a proposition, being a correct expression of an ..."

4. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"... 46 Bank of the US, President, against the creation of a new - 15 proposition to sell United States claim, on 1 5 1,' 1 6 1 , 167 amount due from old, ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Be it noted that, when strictly stated, this proposition, "The sum of the kinetic ... Next, the proposition may be stated, as a legitimate generalization, ..."

6. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1908)
"In other words, conditions inherent in the very nature of argumentation demand, at the outset, that the proposition and the issues it involves shall be made ..."

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