Metaproposition
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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?"
- 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."
Example
More examples"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?"
Etymology
From meta- + proposition.
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