What is "propositions"

Usage examples of "propositions".

Perkins, were the originals of some of the idle propositions we hear bandied about from time to time, let those who listen judge.

In marking a pair of Premisses on the larger Diagram, why is it best to mark NEGATIVE Propositions before AFFIRMATIVE ones?

These two propositions are far from being the same, I have found that such an object has always been attended with such an effect, and I foresee, that other objects, which are, in appearance, similar, will be attended with similar effects.

Where is the medium, the interposing ideas, which join propositions so very wide of each other?

And when he says, Similar sensible qualities will always be conjoined with similar secret powers, he is not guilty of a tautology, nor are these propositions in any respect the same.

This is the second of the three Propositions at the head of this Section.

Also suppose we have two Propositions given us, containing two of these three couples, and that from them we can prove a third Proposition containing the third couple.

What kinds of Propositions imply, in this Game, the EXISTENCE of their Subjects?

In each Question, a small Diagram should be drawn, for x and y only, and marked in accordance with the given large Diagram: and then as many Propositions as possible, for x and y, should be read off from this small Diagram.

That done, the Company will be able to make propositions and to solicit the kindly aid of Canada.

United States with the British Provinces--rendering them in many respects but one country--and of the magnitude of the commercial relations existing between them, it would be impolitic and to the detriment of the interests of the United States to decline the consideration of all propositions looking to the reestablishment of some future and satisfactory international commercial arrangement.

The commonest mode of misrepresentation was this: qualified propositions, the whole meaning of which depended on the qualifications, were stripped of these and taken as absolute.

I will now exhibit, in a series of propositions reduced to their simplest expression, the same essential statements and conclusions as are contained in the Essay, with such commentaries and explanations as may be profitable to the inexperienced class of readers addressed.

Suffer me now to lay down a few propositions, whether old or new it matters little, not for your immediate acceptance, nor yet for your hasty rejection, but for your calm consideration.

With these few explanations I proceed to unfold the propositions I have mentioned.