Propositional - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: propositionalPropositional
Pertaining to or in the nature of a proposition considered as a proposition as a propositional sense...
Proposition
Proposition, a single logical sentence....
alternative
alternative 1 : alternate 2 : offering or expressing a choice [an contract] see also alternative pleading at pleading 3 : existing or functioning outside the established system ;also : different from the usual or conventional [ sentencing] n 1 : a proposition or situation offering a choice between two or more things only one of which may be chosen 2 a : one of two or more things, courses, or propositions to be chosen b : something which can be chosen instead in the alternative 1 : for or as an alternative [asked for specific performance, or in the alternative, damages of $20,000] [a new trial may be asked for in the alternative] 2 : in such a way that offers a choice [relief in the alternative…may be demanded "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 8(a)"] [plead in the alternative] ...
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 the former 2 : something inferred ;esp : a proposition arrived at by inference see also permissive presumption at presumption 3 : the premises and conclusions of a process of inferring ...
Enthymeme
An argument consisting of only two propositions an antecedent and consequent deduced from it a syllogism with one premise omitted as We are dependent therefore we should be humble Here the major proposition is suppressed The complete syllogism would be Dependent creatures should be humble we are dependent creatures therefore we should be humble...
Lemma
A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition as in mathematics or logic...
Nor
A negative connective or particle introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition following neither or not in the first member or clause as or in affirmative propositions follows either Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor...
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 which the quantity is not so indicated...
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 syllogistic fallacies is the tendency of the mind to convert universal affirmatives without limitation.'-Bain's Logic, Deduction, p. 114....
Error apparent on the face of the record
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 the decision. The error of law must appear from the award itself or from any document or note incorporated in it or appended to it. It is not permissible to travel beyond and consider material not incorporated in or appended to the award, Trustees of the Part of Madras v. Engg. Constructions Corp. Ltd. [Arbitration Act, 1940, s. 30(c) and 16(1)(c)]...
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