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Definitions of Proposition on the Web:

• (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false

• suggestion: a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"

• an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)

• proposal: the act of making a proposal; "they listened to her proposal"

• suggest sex to; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"

• a task to be dealt with; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition"

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• In philosophy and logic, proposition is used to refer to either (a) the content or meaning of an assertion or (b) the string of symbols marks or grunts that make up a written or spoken declarative sentence. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition

• Proposition in politics, currently rarely used, designates political parties, factions and individuals in a legislature who are favorable and supportive of the ruling government, as against the Opposition.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition (politics)

• The act of offering (an idea) for consideration; An idea or a plan offered; (in business settings) The terms of a transaction offered; (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 ...

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proposition

• usually means product offer, can mean sales proposal. The initial proposition means the basis of the first approach.

www.bizjobs.com/business_glossary.php

• In sports gambling this is a special wager offered by the sports book on unique and various topics. These wagers can be on sporting events, politics, and even trial outcomes. ...

sportsbettingindex.net/resource/sports-betting-glossary.php

• A proposition is a statement whose correctness (or otherwise) is to be shown by the use of an argument. It most often serves as an introduction by saying, in effect, what the argument is going to show.

www.informatikdidaktik.de/Lehre/TuringLectures/MathNotions.htm

• is a form of words in which the predicate is either affirmed or denied of the subject; the meaning expressed by a declarative sentence. (Intro)

thereignofchrist.com/index.php

• makes a claim about some domain of inquiry. Also called hypotheses. The higher one's class status, the greater one's power is a proposition.

oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth370/gloss.html

• proposal, offer, or suggestion, as in: We gave them our proposition and they accepted it on the spot.

www.business-words.com/dictionary/P_2.html

• A logical sentence whose truth value can be evaluated with respect to some context. Each PowerLoom assertion assigns the value True or False to some proposition.

www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/documentation/manual/manual_11.html

• In Livingstone, a Proposition is an element of a Clause. It is an equality predicate that is partitioned into Positive Propositions and Negative Propositions. Same Propositions can be expressed as Positive Propositions and Different Propositions can be expressed as Negative Propositions. ...

ti.arc.nasa.gov/projects/mba/projects/L2/doc/L2_refman/L2Glossary.html

• An expression about an object which can have either a true or false value.

www.pcai.com/web/glossary/pcai_p_s_glossary.html

• the meaning or information content of a statement. Used interchangeably with the term "statement."

csunx4.bsc.edu/bmyers/Section1.1.htm

• A greedy algorithm is optimal for every 'R'-compatible linear objective function over a greedoid.

www.tutorgig.com/ed/feasible_set

• (1) In truth-functional propositional logic, any statement. (2) In predicate logic, a closed wff, as opposed to a propositional function or open wff. (3) In logic generally (for some), the meaning of a sentence that is invariant through all the paraphrases and translations of the sentence. ...

cstl-cla.semo.edu/hill/pl330/asl%20glossary.htm

• A statement which can be either true or false, as opposed to interrogative, exclamatory, or imperative sentences. See also: belief, unbelief, disbelief.

www.williamjhudson.net/evolution/glossary.html

• The content of a judgement, the the thing the judgement *expresses*. For example "Der gras ist grun" and "Der schnee ist weiss" express the same proposition as the sentences "The grass is geen" and "The snow is white". ...

logicandinquiry.blogspot.com/2006/05/primer-of-logical-terms-top-ten-list.html

• the meaning of a statement

quizlet.com/print/167605/

• A bussines proposal

rmc205b1.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/vocabularylist-final.doc

• A statement or assertion of the relationship between concepts.

wps.prenhall.com/chet_nieswiadomy_foundations_4/3/916/234499.cw/index.html

• Also known as center bets, this is the group of wagers represented in the center of the craps layout.

www.craps2play.com/terms.html

• An unusual or offbeat betting opportunity.

madsports21.com/Glossary.html