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proposition
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proposition noun approach, arrangement, assertion, assumption, bid, condicio, conjecture, course of action, declared intention, design, formulated intention, hypothesis, idea, offer, overture, plan, position, postulate, premise, presentation, program of action, project, proposal, propositio, prospectus, provisional hypothesis, resolution, rogatio, scheme, strategy, submission, suggestion, supposition, tender, tentative approach, tentaaive statement, terms proposed, theory, thesis
See also: advice, affair, affirmance, agenda, application, argument, assertion, basis, bid, business, campaign, claim, clause, contention, invitation, issue, matter, matter in dispute, measure, motion, overture, plan, platform, policy, principle, project, proposal, question, rationale, recommendation, resolution, strategy, subject, suggestion, theory, thesis, ultimatum

PROPOSITION. An offer to do something. Until it has been accepted, a proposition may be withdrawn by the party who makes it; and to be binding, the acceptance must be in the same terms, without any variation. Vide Acceptance; Offer; To retract; and 1 L. R. 190; 4 L. R. 80.



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Bart Erhman has put together a very logical proposition that many of the problems with the religious books have been with scribes who added and changed the originals over time and not with the original constructions.
On the other hand Wittgenstein writes: Propositions like Russell's "axiom of reducibility" are not logical propositions, and this explains our feeling that if true, they can only be true by a happy chance (Wittgenstein 1922: prop.
I am thinking now of Gottlob Frege's pictograms (or "ideographs," as he called them), which the philosopher developed in order to represent his ideas concerning the structure of logical propositions and proofs in his Begriffsschrift (Conceptual Notation, 1879).
 
 
 
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