proposition
/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ nom C2En français : proposition
- The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- The terms of a transaction offered.
- In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A complete sentence.
- 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 is connected by a copula. · “Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition.
- An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
Pluriel propositions
Dans la bibliothèque
What a proposition!”
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
But your more deadly proposition is not so clear.
His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid.
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