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prop·o·si·tion
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subaltern
lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee. -
proposal
the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance. -
disjunction
the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action. -
hegelian dialectic
an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis) -
hypothesis
a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts. -
predicate
to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.