proposition
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
proposition/prɒpəˈzɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a statement expressing a judgement or opinion.
■ Logic a statement expressing a concept that can be true or false.
■ Mathematics a formal statement of a theorem or problem.
- 2 a proposed scheme or plan.
■ US a constitutional proposal.
- 3 informal an offer of sexual intercourse.
- 4 a matter or person to be dealt with, with reference to the likelihood of a successful outcome.
– derivatives
propositional adjective.
propositional adjective.
'proposition' also found in these Oxford entries:
affirmative
- antecedent
- argument
- axiom
- beg
- conclusion
- conjunct
- consequent
- contraposition
- convert
- corollary
- disjunct
- disjunctive
- evidence
- existential
- extreme
- hypallage
- hypothesis
- hypothetical
- matter
- maxim
- modal
- mode
- move
- negate
- negation
- obvert
- paradox
- particular
- pons asinorum
- position
- predicate
- premise
- principle
- prop.
- protasis
- quantify
- sentence
- subaltern
- subject
- submission
- term
- theme
- theorem
- thesis
- truism
- truth condition
- truth table
- truth value
