Proposition
in geometry and mathematics, a statement in terms of something proposed to be proved or done.
In grammar, a sentence, or part of one, consisting of a subject, a predicate, and copula. In logic, a sentence, or part of a sentence, affirming or denying a con- ⚫nection between the terms; limited to express assertions rather than extended to PROSSNITZ questions and commands. In poetry, the first part of a poem, in which the author states the subject subject or matter of it. In rhetoric, that which is proposed, offered, or affirmed, as the subject of a discourse or discussion.