proposition of law
21law — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. statute, ordinance, regulation, mandate; rule, maxim; precept, axiom, jurisprudence. See legality, permission. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The judicial system] Syn. judicial procedure, judicature, legal… …
22law — n 1. principle, regulation, rule, ordinance, bylaw, statute; enactment, act, measure, bill; control, restriction, ban, embargo, prohibition. 2. command, mandate, commandment, directive, order, court order, injunction, decree, edict, dictate,… …
23law of absorption — a theorem in logic: to affirm that either some proposition is true or else that that proposition and some other proposition are both true is equivalent to affirming the first proposition …
24Law of total probability — In probability theory, the law (or formula) of total probability is a fundamental rule relating marginal probabilities to conditional probabilities. Contents 1 Statement 2 Applications 3 Other names 4 See …
25law — Synonyms and related words: Dogberry, Eighteenth Amendment, John Law, Procrustean law, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, a priori truth, act, appointment, assize, axiom, ban, bill, bluecoat, bobby, brevet, bring action against, bring into court,… …
26proposition — Synonyms and related words: a priori principle, a priori truth, accost, advance, affair, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, approach, apriorism, assertion, asseveration, assumed position, assumption, attempt,… …
27Law of total expectation — The proposition in probability theory known as the law of total expectation, the law of iterated expectations, the tower rule, the smoothing theorem, among other names, states that if X is an integrable random variable (i.e., a random variable… …
28Law and Oracle — Эпизод «Футурамы» «Закон и Оракул» «Law and Oracle» …
29point of law — n. An individual legal issue or proposition at the heart of a case. @ reserved point of law A holding of a difficult legal issue that the judge holds in abeyance so that further testimony in the case may proceed. @ Webster s New World Law… …
30law of contradiction — a principle in logic: a thing cannot at the same time both be and not be of a specified kind (as a table and not a table) or in a specified manner (as red or not red) * * * Logic. the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a …
