Mr. Slater, we accept your proposition, and we're ready to take it back to the future.
Once your partner has accepted your tempting proposition, then you should escort him or her to the dance floor slowly or smoothly -- there's no need to rush.
We might not like Hamas or some of its methods, but that is not the same as accepting the proposition that Palestinians should supinely accept the denial of their right to exist as a free people in their ancestral homeland.
By contrast, satisfying a negative constraint means accepting one proposition while rejecting the other.
Consider actions such as entertaining a proposition, or ignoring a proposition, or critically inquiring into the plausibility of this idea or that, or accepting a proposition.
Indirect control occurs since accepting a proposition, say, or acting as if a proposition were true, very often results in believing that proposition.
Strictly speaking, a person's acceptance of some proposition is based solely on her understanding it only if that understanding both causes and justifies her accepting that proposition.
Accepting a proposition, unlike believing, is an action that is characterized, in part, by one's assenting to the proposition, whether one believes it or not.
According to Lehrer, a person is justified in accepting a proposition just in case that proposition coheres with the relevant part of her cognitive system.
The two-step regimen of accepting a proposition and then acting upon it is a common way of generating belief in that proposition.
