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Assertion

The act of asserting.
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Proposition

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

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

The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
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Proposition

A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal.
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Assertion

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

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

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

A subject for discussion or analysis.
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Assertion

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

A statement that affirms or denies something.
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Assertion

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

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

(Mathematics) A theorem.
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Assertion

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

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

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

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

The act of affirming or asserting or stating something
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Proposition

(countable) An idea or a plan offered.
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Proposition

The terms of a transaction offered.
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Proposition

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

(grammar) A complete sentence.
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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.
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Proposition

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

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

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

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

Misspelling of preposition
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Proposition

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

To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
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Proposition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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