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Proposition is an English word with synonyms like proposal or suggest. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Proposition in a sentence

Proposition meaning

  1. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  2. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.

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Using Proposition

  • The main meaning on this page is: The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. | An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. | An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
  • Useful related words include: proposal, suggest, propose, labor.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: propositie, voorstel.
  • In the example corpus, proposition often appears in combinations such as: value proposition, the proposition, proposition is.

Context around Proposition

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
208 laid 109 110 cicero indicates sentence

Corpus analysis for Proposition

  • In this selection, "proposition" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, value, defend, change, 208, laid and 109 stand out and add context to how "proposition" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include of that proposition and a given proposition is to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "proposition" sits close to words such as bullets, legion and oven, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with proposition

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Here, a line over a proposition indicates the logical negation of that proposition. (13 words)

Proposition 7 As the last line in the book, proposition 7 has no supplementary propositions. (15 words)

Proposition 6.N At the beginning of Proposition 6, Wittgenstein postulates the essential form of all sentences. (17 words)

In 2013, as California’s attorney general, she to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining why she wouldn’t defend Proposition 8, which banned marriage equality in the state: “I declined to defend Proposition 8 because it violates the Constitution. (40 words)

Taxes are a major issue, including Arizona’s Proposition 208, which would impose a 3.5 percent income tax on the wealthy, and California’s Proposition 15, which — as — would effectively raise commercial property taxes. (35 words)

Distinction between saying and showing According to the picture theory, when a proposition is thought or expressed, each of its constituent parts correspond (if the proposition is true) to some aspect of the world. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Honasa’s each brand has its distinctive value proposition, they said, adding with their distinctive value proposition, each one of them is capable of capturing the fast-growing BPC categories.

In 2013, as California’s attorney general, she to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining why she wouldn’t defend Proposition 8, which banned marriage equality in the state: “I declined to defend Proposition 8 because it violates the Constitution.

Proposition 15 would not change Proposition 13’s tax limit of 1% of the property’s full cash value.

Taxes are a major issue, including Arizona’s Proposition 208, which would impose a 3.5 percent income tax on the wealthy, and California’s Proposition 15, which — as — would effectively raise commercial property taxes.

In the Wambaugh test, if reversing the proposition laid down by the judge reverses the finding, the proposition is deemed as the ratio, else it is not.

Today, Coloradans have a chance to vote on Proposition 109: Fix Our Damn Roads and Proposition 110: Let’s Go Colorado.

Alvin Goldman writes in his Causal Theory of Knowing that in order for knowledge to truly exist there must be a causal chain between the proposition and the belief of that proposition.

An analytic proposition is true by nature of the meaning of the words in the sentence — we require no further knowledge than a grasp of the language to understand this proposition.

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Classical logic extends intuitionistic logic with an additional axiom or principle of excluded middle : :For any proposition p, the proposition p ∨ ¬p is true.

Distinction between saying and showing According to the picture theory, when a proposition is thought or expressed, each of its constituent parts correspond (if the proposition is true) to some aspect of the world.

For example in the proposition Cicero is Roman it is unclear what semantic content the proper name Cicero provides to the proposition.

Here, a line over a proposition indicates the logical negation of that proposition.

He showed this by the following examples: : The categorical proposition "Some man is sick" has the same meaning as the existential proposition "A sick man exists" or "There is a sick man".

In these interpretations, a value is interpreted as the "degree" of truth – to what extent a proposition is true, or the probability that the proposition is true.

It can be much easier to show a proposition's truth to follow from another proposition than to prove it independently.

One of the principal tasks of the logical analysis of a given proposition is to find out the method of verification for that proposition.

Proposition 6.N At the beginning of Proposition 6, Wittgenstein postulates the essential form of all sentences.

Proposition 7 As the last line in the book, proposition 7 has no supplementary propositions.

Putting something into the topic means that the proposition is only stated for that particular thing or aspect, and implies that the proposition is not true for some others.

That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image, which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact.

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Common combinations with proposition

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "proposition" in a sentence?
An example: "Honasa’s each brand has its distinctive value proposition, they said, adding with their distinctive value proposition, each one of them is capable of capturing the fast-growing BPC categories." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "proposition" from authentic English texts.
What does "proposition" mean?
Proposition means: The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
What are synonyms of "proposition"?
Common synonyms of "proposition" include: proposal, suggest, propose, labor, task, project, undertaking, speech act. Plus 6 more synonyms.
What is "proposition" in Dutch?
"proposition" translates to Dutch as: propositie, voorstel.
How many example sentences with "proposition" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "proposition", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.