The act of making a proposal

Usage examples of proposition.

I propose to ask your attention for a little while to some propositions in affirmance of that statement.

He made no intimation at the time of the proposition, nor did he in his reply allude at all to that suggestion of mine.

The President, therefore, does not feel himself at liberty to entertain a proposition which would require the conclusion of a new treaty in Constitutional form before the proposition could be assented to by the United States.

That seemed almost obscene to someone who was used to graduate assistantships that were essentially break even propositions.

The baronet thought it a natural proposition that Clare should be a bride or a schoolgirl.

And Everett Everett Barr turned down all propositions in the name of Sally Surett.

Mr Sprout, on behalf of Mr Du Boung, protested against that proposition.

That is to say, to each of those propositions corresponds a direct, repeatable, experiential disclosure, as interpreted in a community of those who have mastered the paradigm and displayed competence in the injunctions and exemplars.

That the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the square of the two sides, is a proposition which expresses a relation between these figures.

Dilemma, then, is a compound Conditional Syllogism, having for its Major Premise two Hypothetical Propositions, and for its Minor Premise a Disjunctive Proposition, whose alternative terms either affirm the Antecedents or deny the Consequents of the two Hypothetical Propositions forming the Major Premise.

The relation between the premises of a valid syllogism and its conclusion is the same as the relation between the antecedent and consequent of a hypothetical proposition.

This was an expensive proposition, multiplied manyfold when there was more than one female in the family, for women seemed to require more in the way of elaborate clothing than men.

But as he matured as a thinker and an artist he realized it would be more valuable to test his ideas than merely to reiterate them, and to generate vivid negative images rather than advance positive propositions.

It was in being somebody, and being Mearl Streep was a plain losing proposition.

Mistakes are so easily made in the date of the occurrence of pregnancy, or in the date of conception, that in the remarkable cases we can hardly accept the propositions as worthy evidence unless associated with other and more convincing facts, such as the appearance and stage of development of the fetus, or circumstances making conception impossible before or after the time mentioned, etc.