stipulated_definition
A proposition is a declarative content treated in this entry as eligible for truth or falsity.
Scope: Declared first-party usage for this encyclopedia entry; not a universal or empirical assertion.
Q100000 — Proposition
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This is first-party 4P Engine editorial work, distinct from Maclain Hunter's static Q works and from provisional Wikidata-derived items.
Definition
A proposition is a declarative content treated in this entry as eligible for truth or falsity.
An accepted stipulated definition establishes local encyclopedia usage; it is not empirical proof.
Accepted claims and scope
stipulated_definition
This entry uses proposition for declarative content, not for a sentence as a physical or grammatical object.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
stipulated_definition
In this editorial usage, a proposition is distinguished from the wording that expresses it.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
stipulated_definition
Truth-aptness here is a classificatory criterion, not a claim that every disputed sentence has a settled truth value.
Scope: Declared local editorial disambiguation or distinction for this entry; this claim sets usage and does not assert a contingent world fact.
Disambiguation
This entry uses proposition for declarative content, not for a sentence as a physical or grammatical object.
Editorial distinctions
- In this editorial usage, a proposition is distinguished from the wording that expresses it.
- Truth-aptness here is a classificatory criterion, not a claim that every disputed sentence has a settled truth value.
Record-level original-text rights
Original-text rights attestation: Attested. The submitted definition, disambiguation, distinctions, and claim wording are original first-party editorial text; no external prose has been copied or adapted.
Source provenance and rights
No independently verified external source is asserted for the stipulative core.
Related atlas concepts — editorial navigation
Atlas relations are editorial navigation links, not validated equivalence or entailment.
- related: Inductive reasoning (atlas.concept.inductive-reasoning)
Review evidence boundary
Only accepted claims are eligible for the first-party core. External evidence remains bounded to its verified provenance; authorship attribution is not asserted.
Publication metadata
Status: published; protocol/version: logos_encyclopedia_published_v1 / 10; published: 2026-09-28T09:57:03.908Z