Propositions

Examples

• These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic races. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The truth of these propositions cannot, I think, be disputed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The company was soon swamped with propositions for sale of territorial rights and with other negotiations, and some of these were accompanied by the offer of very large sums of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Conceptions and propositions mutually imply and support one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He shook his head, and assented to all she proposed, though many of her propositions absolutely contradicted one another. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His propositions should be made in explicit terms, so as to be easily understood. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The answer is easy with regard to propositions, that are proved by intuition or demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If any one dissent from this, he must give a regular proof of these two propositions, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The statements, the propositions, in which knowledge, the issue of active concern with problems, is deposited, are taken to be themselves knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Terms and propositions record, fix, and convey what is abstracted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Nor were these propositions evident to Mr. Gladstone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of which propositions reach far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But these are only preliminary propositions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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