proposition

Definitions

• (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
• (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
• (countable) The terms of a transaction offered.
• (countable) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
• (grammar) A complete sentence.
• (countable) 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; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.
• (countable) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
• (countable) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
• A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
• (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.