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Assertion vs. Proposition — What's the Difference?

Assertion vs. Proposition — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Assertion and Proposition

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Assertion

The act of asserting.

Proposition

An offer of a private bargain, especially a request for sexual relations.

Assertion

Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof.

Proposition

In logic and linguistics, a proposition is the meaning of a declarative sentence. In philosophy, "meaning" is understood to be a non-linguistic entity which is shared by all sentences with the same meaning.

Assertion

The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
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Proposition

A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal.

Assertion

Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
You're a man of strong assertions!

Proposition

A matter to be dealt with; a task
Finding affordable housing can be a difficult proposition.

Assertion

A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
That's just a bare assertion.

Proposition

A subject for discussion or analysis.

Assertion

Maintenance; vindication
The assertion of one's rights or prerogatives

Proposition

A statement that affirms or denies something.

Assertion

(computer programming) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

Proposition

The meaning expressed in such a statement, as opposed to the way it is expressed.

Assertion

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
There is a difference between assertion and demonstration.

Proposition

(Mathematics) A theorem.

Assertion

Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.

Proposition

To propose a private bargain to, especially to propose sexual relations with.

Assertion

A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

Proposition

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

Assertion

The act of affirming or asserting or stating something

Proposition

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.

Proposition

The terms of a transaction offered.

Proposition

In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

Proposition

(grammar) A complete sentence.

Proposition

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 connected by a copula.
“‘Wiktionary is a good dictionary’ is a proposition” is a proposition.

Proposition

An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

Proposition

An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

Proposition

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
The propositions of Wyclif and Huss

Proposition

(poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Proposition

Misspelling of preposition

Proposition

To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

Proposition

To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

Proposition

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

Proposition

That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.

Proposition

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
Some persons . . . change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

Proposition

A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.

Proposition

A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.

Proposition

That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.

Proposition

The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Proposition

(logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false

Proposition

A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection;
It was a suggestion we couldn't refuse

Proposition

An offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)

Proposition

The act of making a proposal;
They listened to her proposal

Proposition

A task to be dealt with;
Securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition

Proposition

Suggest sex to;
She was propositioned by a stranger at the party

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