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Additionales

Additionales, propositions or terms added to a former agreement or contract.

Subject

Subject (logic), that concerning which the affirmation in a proposition is made; the first word in a proposition, Mill's Logic. See PREDICATE. 1. One who owes allegiance to

Ruling

contrast, for example, with the usual meaning of 'legal rule'. The term rule ordinarily refers to a legal proposition of general application. A ruling may have force as precedent, but ordinarily it has that force because the

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Error apparent on the face of the record

in the case of a reasoned award, the Court can interfere if the award is based upon a proposition of law which is unsound in law. The erroneous proposition of law must be established to have vitiated

Converse

Converse (in logic), the transposition of the subject and predicate in a proposition. The proposition 'X is Y,' converted, becomes 'Y is X.' 'By far the most fertile source of purely

Propositional

Pertaining to or in the nature of a proposition considered as a proposition as a propositional sense

Lemma

A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition as in mathematics or logic

inference

inference 1 : the act or process of inferring ;specif : the act of passing from one proposition, statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose truth is believed to follow logically from that of

Predesignate

A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign as all none etc contrasted with preindesignate defining propositions of

Gas

which is often used for industrial medical or other similar purposes. So it is difficult to accept the proposition that 'gas' in entry 25 of List II includes natural gas, which is fundamentally different from manufactured gas

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