English words for 'The state of being propositional'
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noun
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- a change of religion
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- an event that results in a transformation
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
noun
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- a limited period of time
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
verb
adj
noun
- The act of postulating or something postulated.
- (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
adj
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
noun
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
adj
noun
- (propositional calculus) The hypothesis of an implication
- (electrical engineering) On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.
noun
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
noun
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- how something is done or how it happens
- the most frequent value of a random variable
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
- (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (music, in particular) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- (electromagnetism) A wave pattern in the electromagnetic field.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
- (especially engineering) A state related to signals or vibrations.
- (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- (video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
noun
- The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- (geometry) A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
noun
- (philosophy, logic, uncountable) The logical fallacy of begging the question (i.e., "assuming the conclusion").
- (philosophy, logic, countable) A particular argument which commits the fallacy of begging the question; a circular argument.
- the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
noun
- a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)
- (logic) The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.
adj
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
adj
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- (Biblical studies, theology) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
- Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- To make a premise.
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- take something as preexisting and given
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
noun
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb
noun
- the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.
noun
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- (logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- a change of religion
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- an event that results in a transformation
- (American football) An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- (law) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- (mathematics) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- (rugby) A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- (linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- (computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
- Living space in a part of a building that was previously uninhabitable, or the process of constructing such living space.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- (slang, board games) Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
noun
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- a limited period of time
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
verb
adj
noun
- The act of postulating or something postulated.
- (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
noun
- (propositional calculus) The hypothesis of an implication
- (electrical engineering) On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.
noun
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
adj
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
noun
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
noun
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- how something is done or how it happens
- the most frequent value of a random variable
- any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular functioning condition or arrangement
- (philosophy) That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- (electronics) A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- (music, in particular) One of several ancient Greek scales.
- (textiles) The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- (electromagnetism) A wave pattern in the electromagnetic field.
- (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
- (especially engineering) A state related to signals or vibrations.
- (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- (video games) A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
noun
- The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
- The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
- (geometry) A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
noun
- (philosophy, logic, uncountable) The logical fallacy of begging the question (i.e., "assuming the conclusion").
- (philosophy, logic, countable) A particular argument which commits the fallacy of begging the question; a circular argument.
- the logical fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question
noun
- a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)
- (logic) The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb
noun
- the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilability.
verb
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
noun
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
adj
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- To make a premise.
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- take something as preexisting and given
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
noun
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
adj
- (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
- (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
- (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
- (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
noun
- (logic) A modal proposition.
- (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.
- (grammar) A modal verb.
- (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
- an auxiliary verb (such as ‘can’ or ‘will’) that is used to express modality
adj
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
- Affording proof; demonstrative.
- (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
adj
- of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
- Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
- (Biblical studies, theology) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
- Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.