English-Italian translations for proposition

• proposta
  Tale proposta è decisamente stravagante. This proposition is entirely bizarre.
• proposizione
• affermazione
  Respingo con forza questa affermazione. I emphatically reject that proposition.
  Prendo senz’altro atto della sua ultima affermazione. I will certainly take note of her last proposition.
  Devo dire che non sono sicuro che questa affermazione sia corretta. I must say I am not sure that proposition is correct.
• proposizione logica
• suggerimento

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