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*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Defintions==
*1 a (1) : something offered for [[consideration]] or [[acceptance]] : proposal (2) : a request for [[sexual intercourse]]
:b : the point to be [[discussed]] or maintained in [[argument]] usually stated in sentence form near the outset
:c : a theorem or [[problem]] to be [[demonstrated]] or performed
*2 a : an [[expression]] in [[language]] or signs of something that can be believed, doubted, or denied or is either [[true]] or [[false]]
:b : the objective [[meaning]] of a proposition
*3 : something of an indicated kind to be dealt with <the farm was never a paying proposition>
==Description==
In [[logic]] and [[philosophy]], the term '''proposition''' (from the [[word]] "proposal") refers to both (a) the "[[content]]" or "[[meaning]]" of a meaningful declarative sentence or (b) the [[pattern]] of [[symbols]], marks, or [[sounds]] that make up a meaningful declarative sentence. The [[meaning]] of a proposition includes that it has the [[quality]] or property of being either [[true]] or [[false]], and as such propositions are called ''truthbearers''.
The [[existence]] of propositions in the [[abstract]] sense, as well as the existence of "[[meanings]]", is disputed by some philosophers. Where the [[concept]] of a "[[meaning]]" is admitted, its [[nature]] is [[controversial]]. In earlier [[texts]] writers have not always made it sufficiently clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the [[words]] or the "[[meaning]]" [[expressed]] by the words.[1] To avoid the controversies and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology ontological] implications, the term sentence is often now used instead of proposition to refer to just those strings of [[symbols]] that are truthbearers, being either true or false under an [[interpretation]]. Strawson [[advocated]] the use of the term "statement", and this is the current usage in [[mathematical]] [[logic]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition]
[[Category: Logic]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Defintions==
*1 a (1) : something offered for [[consideration]] or [[acceptance]] : proposal (2) : a request for [[sexual intercourse]]
:b : the point to be [[discussed]] or maintained in [[argument]] usually stated in sentence form near the outset
:c : a theorem or [[problem]] to be [[demonstrated]] or performed
*2 a : an [[expression]] in [[language]] or signs of something that can be believed, doubted, or denied or is either [[true]] or [[false]]
:b : the objective [[meaning]] of a proposition
*3 : something of an indicated kind to be dealt with <the farm was never a paying proposition>
==Description==
In [[logic]] and [[philosophy]], the term '''proposition''' (from the [[word]] "proposal") refers to both (a) the "[[content]]" or "[[meaning]]" of a meaningful declarative sentence or (b) the [[pattern]] of [[symbols]], marks, or [[sounds]] that make up a meaningful declarative sentence. The [[meaning]] of a proposition includes that it has the [[quality]] or property of being either [[true]] or [[false]], and as such propositions are called ''truthbearers''.
The [[existence]] of propositions in the [[abstract]] sense, as well as the existence of "[[meanings]]", is disputed by some philosophers. Where the [[concept]] of a "[[meaning]]" is admitted, its [[nature]] is [[controversial]]. In earlier [[texts]] writers have not always made it sufficiently clear whether they are using the term proposition in sense of the [[words]] or the "[[meaning]]" [[expressed]] by the words.[1] To avoid the controversies and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology ontological] implications, the term sentence is often now used instead of proposition to refer to just those strings of [[symbols]] that are truthbearers, being either true or false under an [[interpretation]]. Strawson [[advocated]] the use of the term "statement", and this is the current usage in [[mathematical]] [[logic]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition]
[[Category: Logic]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
