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Proposition vs Constatation - What's the difference?

proposition | constatation |

As nouns the difference between proposition and constatation

is that proposition is (uncountable) the act of offering (an idea) for consideration while constatation is the process of verification.

As a verb proposition

is to propose a plan to (someone).

proposition

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  • (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
  • (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
  • (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.
  • (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  • (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
  • A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
    • the propositions of Wyclif and Huss
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.
  • (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of offering an idea for consideration) proposal, suggestion * (idea or plan offered) proposal, suggestion * (terms offered) proposal * (content of an assertion) statement * (proposed statute or constitutional amendment)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To propose a plan to (someone).
  • To propose some illicit behaviour to (someone). Often sexual in nature.

    • Related terms

    * propose

    Derived terms

    * propositional ----

    constatation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of verification.
  • An assertion; a proposition assumed for the sake of argument, an axiom.
  • * 1997 , Helen H. Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets , page 626,
    • In Q2, he marks his departure from alternative constatation of fact (“Either love has put eyes in my head that have not true sight'', or they ''see'' truly, but my judgment is amiss”) to social speculation by avoiding the ''see'' of visual perception in favor of the words ''eyes dote'' and ''love's eye , which clearly denote not simple perception but biased judgement.
  • * 2001 , Eva Brems, Human Rights: Universality and Diversity , page 334,
    • From that constatation' which is similar to the ' constatation that the human rights system expresses the views of the dominant group, Kymlicka concludes the need for cultural accommodation.
  • * 2007 , Joseph Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law , page 65,
    • To ascertain those conventions, it is important to see how some of the tensions between natural law and positive law (between constatation and declaration) manifest themselves textually.

    Synonyms

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