PROPOSITION

Proposition

The term ‘proposition’ has a broad use in contemporary philosophy. It is used to refer to some or all of the following: the primary bearers of truth-value, the objects of belief and other “propositional attitudes”, the referents of that-clauses, and the meanings of sentences. Propositions are the sharable objects of the attitudes and the primary bearers of truth and falsity. This stipulation rules out certain candidates for propositions, including thought- and utterance-tokens, which presumably are not sharable, and concrete events or facts, which presumably cannot be false.

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proposition

Noun

  1. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  2. An idea or a plan offered.
  3. The terms of a transaction offered.
  4. In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
  5. 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.
  6. An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  7. An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

Verb

  1. To propose a plan to (someone).
  2. To propose some illicit behaviour to (someone). Often sexual in nature.


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