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metapropositions

metapropositions is the plural of metaproposition.

Meaning of metaproposition

Noun

metaproposition (plural metapropositions)

  1. A proposition about propositions.
    • What cognitive process—corresponding to intuition—enables a system to not only accept a proposition as true but to accept a metaproposition about “its” knowledge that the proposition is true?1976, Manfred Kochen, “Cognitive Science”, in Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent, editors, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, volume 5, →ISBN, page 117
  2. An underlying proposition that is embedded in many different statements throughout a given work or set of works.
    • On the one side, others may see some other metaproposition that circulates throughout a piece of writing, different from one that I might proposed. On the other, still others may perceive no metaproposition at all.1992, Jacob Neusner, Decoding the Talmud’s Exegetical Program: From Detail to Principle in the Bavli’s Quest for Generalization, →ISBN, page 2

Questions about metapropositions

What is metapropositions the plural of?
Metapropositions is the plural of metaproposition.

Words near metapropositions in the dictionary

  1. metaproperty
  2. metaprophylactic
  3. metaprophylaxis
  4. metaproposition
  5. metapropositional
  6. metapropositions
  7. metaprotaspid
  8. metaprotaspides
  9. metaprotaspis
  10. metaprotein
  11. metaproteins

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