But one might hope that a broadly syntactic solution — perhaps like King's — would be available to anyone, regardless of one's stance on propositions.
For this reason they are sometimes called proposition-forming operators on propositions or, more briefly, propositional connectives.
The only thing I ask is that I have my say on propositions.
Cardano's presentation followed the Islamic tradition of solving one instance of every possible case and then giving geometric justifications for his procedures, based on propositions from Euclid's Elements.
In another version of meaningfulness, first adumbrated by Schlick (under the influence of Wittgenstein), the philosopher's attention is focused on concepts rather than on propositions.
Overwhelmed by a ballot's length, voters may be discouraged from expressing their preferences for candidates of whom they have not heard, or from deciding on propositions that they do not understand.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had bet his political capital on the outcome of Super Tuesday—not the predictable victory of John Kerry in California's primary, but the voting on the accompanying ballot initiatives, in particular on Propositions 57 and 58.
This use of the word differs from Aristotle's original application of it (in his Prior Analytics, ii, 27) to a rhetorical syllogism (employed for persuasion instead of instruction) based on "probabilities or signs"; i.e., on propositions that are generally valid or on particular facts that may be held to justify a general principle or another particular fact.
(See the entry on propositions).
For more detail, see the entry on propositions.
Whether this hope is reasonable or not is an important issue in contemporary work on propositions.
