Sentence Examples
This is a reasonable proposition.
This proposition was not adopted.
These propositions were rejected.
That is a scientific proposition.
Nobody disputes your proposition.
It’s just a business proposition.
It was a proposition of marriage.
It is not a gambling proposition.
I am in favor of his proposition.
"Here's a hard-luck proposition!"
The proposition was carried by acclamation.
A teacher chalked a proposition in algebra.
"Are you going to accept that proposition?"
This proposition gave rise to a very animated debate.
They all expressed a full assent to this proposition.
Julian looked utterly astonished at this proposition.
Crystal is a good deal of a proposition, I grant you.
"Such a proposition is illogical, pernicious, insane."
Camp life without access to water is an impossible proposition.
[From Vacation Camping for Girls by Marks, Jeannette Augustus]
This proposition was telegraphed to Washington and quickly accepted.
[From Railroad Reorganization by Daggett, Stuart]
A proposition fraught with such consequences required consideration.
With Lincoln the desire to prove his proposition, whatever it might be, was always uppermost.
[From Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Dodge, Daniel Kilham]
We believed we could make a farm certainly self-supporting and probably a paying proposition.
[From The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York by Russell, William Ingraham]
Upon this the most certain of all propositions, the certainty of all other knowledge depends.
[From A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley)]
This proposition is self-evident, and can be made no plainer by repetitions or illustrations.
[From The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life, by Hopkins, Cyril G. (Cyril George)]
The old Prince’s proposition was a blow to the Princess, who was placed in a trying position.
[From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr]
If we are completely certain of a proposition, we do not seek a ground to support our belief.
[From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand]
Dogmas are abstract propositions, and all human society rests on abstract propositions.
[From The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation by O'Malley, Austin]
"It’s one proposition to make one of these men swells believe that a woman is the real thing."
[From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy]
The conclusions, however, arise from propositions, and the propositions from conceptions.
[From A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley)]
Propositions are of two kinds, ‘Propositions of Existence’ and ‘Propositions of Relation.’
[From Symbolic Logic by Carroll, Lewis]
A Mediate Inference, or Syllogism, consists of two propositions, which are called the Premisses, and a third proposition known as the Conclusion, which flows from the two conjointly.
[From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph]
"A conjunction is a part of speech serving to unite two propositions as parts of the same complex assertion, or two words as similar parts of the subject or predicate of one proposition."
[From Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various]
Thus the difference between an a priori general proposition and an empirical generalization does not come in the meaning of the proposition; it comes in the nature of the evidence for it.
[From The Problems of Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand]
It does not therefore seem to me quite fitting that Miklosich should always term such propositions subjectless, and it is quite incorrect when he calls them mere predicative propositions.
[From The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong by Brentano, Franz]
These two propositions and the corollary are all parts of one general proposition: If through a point a line is drawn cutting a circle, the product of the segments of the line is constant.
[From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene]
These natural propositions or natural things must, however, resemble also mathematical propositions, and depend, after all, upon the primary proposition of mathematics or the axiom.
[From Elements of Physiophilosophy by Oken, Lorenz]
After a month of debating propositions and counter-propositions, the differences narrowed themselves down to the single question of what should be the method of representation in Congress.
[From The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 4, December, 1909 by Various]
When the conclusion is drawn from one proposition, the inference is said to be immediate; when more than one proposition is necessary to the conclusion, the inference is said to be mediate.
[From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William]
The proposition before you is, therefore, original in character, without sanction from any former legislation, and it must, accordingly, be judged by its merits, as an original proposition.
[From Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Sumner, Charles]
It results from the doctrines of Conversion that valid arguments may be stated in these forms, inasmuch as a proposition in one order of terms may be equivalent to a proposition in another.
[From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William]
It is true that every abstract proposition concerning rent, capital, and wages now (and always) holds true for the whole world; but, so conceived, the propositions give no practical result.
[From Speculations from Political Economy by Clarke, Charles Baron]