English-Estonian translations for proposition

• ettepanek
  See ettepanek on täiesti naeruväärne. This proposition is entirely bizarre.
• propositsioon
• väide
  Üldtuntud väide abi koguse kohta - mida rohkem abi anda, seda suurem on majandusareng - on täielikult läbi kukkunud. The aid quantity argument, as it is generally known - that is, the proposition that the more aid you grant, the more economic development there will be - has been totally discredited.

Definition of proposition

• The act of offering for consideration
• The terms of a transaction offered
• 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; a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula
• An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false
• A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed
• The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it
• To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved

Examples

• “Wiktionary is a good dictionary is a proposition” is a proposition
• the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

Related words

• propositional
• propositional logic
• propositional calculus
• propositional variable
• propositional act
• analytic proposition
• synthetic proposition
• unique selling proposition
• contrapositive proposition