2. Verb. (third-person singular of proposition) ¹
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Definition of Propositions
1. proposition [v] - See also: proposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propositions
Literary usage of Propositions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"As, First, identical Propositions. CHAPTER VIII. OF TRIFLING Propositions. 1.
WHETHER the maxims treated of in the foregoing chapter be of that use to real ..."
2. An essay concerning human understanding by John Locke (1823)
"I shall begin with general propositions, as those which most employ our thoughts,
and exercise ... This makes the consideration of words and propositions so ..."
3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"Undefined elements and unproved propositions. Geometry deals with the properties
of figures in space. Every such figure is made up of various elements ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Educational Association for its consideration any of these propositions which
might be approved. Objection was made on the ground that many of those present ..."
5. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"He applies to all propositions alike the same limitation which Locke applies to
those concerning real existence. With Locke there may very well be a ..."
6. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"We say ' fiction,' proposi- for with the possibility of general propositions, as
the Greek philosophers once for all pointed out, stands or falls the pos- ..."
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