n. The act of placing or setting forth; the act of offering.n. That which is proposed; that which is offered for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; offer of terms: commonly in the plural: as, propositions of peace.n. A representation in thought or language of an act of the mind in thinking a quality or general sign, termed a predicate, to be applicable to something indicated, and termed a subject.n. In mathematics, a statement in terms of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed.n. In rhetoric, that which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration; the first part of a poem, in which the author states the subject or matter of it: as, Horace recommends modesty and simplicity in the proposition of a poem.n. In music: The act or process of enunciating or giving out a theme or subject.n. Specifically — The subject of a fugue, as distinguished from the answer.n. An assumption of what appears likely.n. propositions de necessario quando, which stated something to be necessarily true at specified times; andn. propositions de necessario simpliciter, or categorical apodictic propositions. The latter were further divided into propositions de necessario simpliciter pro nunc, or propositions stating something to be necessarily true now, and propositions de necessario simpliciter pro semper, stating something to be always necessarily true.n. Usually, a categorical proposition, or one expressed by means of a noun and a verb, as contradistinguished from a conditional proposition.n. 3 and Position, thesis, statement, declaration, dictum, doctrine. Proposition differs from the words compared under subject, in that it is the technical word in rhetoric for the indication of the theme of a discourse.n. Something to be done, accomplished, etc.; especially, something difficult or puzzling.