proposition of law
31final proposition — index ultimatum Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
32make a proposition — index offer (propose) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
33self-evident proposition — index principle (axiom) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
34working proposition — index device (contrivance) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
35law of contradiction — Logic. the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a thing cannot both have and not have a given property. * * * …
36law of definite composition — 1. Chem. the statement that in a pure compound the elements are always combined in fixed proportions by weight. 2. Logic. the law that either a proposition or its denial must be true. * * * …
37law of identity — Logic. the law that any proposition implies itself. * * * …
38law of excluded middle — noun An axiom of classical logic which states that, given a proposition P, either P is true or P is false, i.e. in symbols: . This law is rejected by intuitionistic logic …
39law of contradiction — noun the law which asserts that a proposition cannot at the same time be both true and false, or alternatively that a thing cannot at the same time both have and not have a given property …
40law of identity — one of three principles in logic: 1. : a statement (as “a house is a house”) in which the subject and predicate are the same is true 2. : the copula in an identity affirms an existent of which the identity is true 3. : a statement of an identity… …
