Proposition
“qaḍīyah”
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a proposition · qaḍīyah · قضية · PROPOSITION · Propositions · the forms of propositions · صور القضايا
in the texts
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The expression that conveys a judgment, with its subject, predicate and connecting relation
Yet all of them go back to a single spring and a single order, the inquiry in them turning upon utterances (alfāẓ) and their significations, definitions (ḥudūd) and their kinds, the forms of propositions (qaḍāyā) and the manner of their arrangement, their divisions and their branches, the figures of the syllogisms (ashkāl al-aqyisah) and their kinds and their various names, the conditions that mus …
The expression by which the judgment is conveyed is called a (proposition, *qaḍīyah*), and the subject of the judgment is its subject and its predicate is its predicate;
and setting up the proof (burhān) of a thing by a proposition (qaḍīyah) whose soundness depends upon the soundness of the first;
The Game of Logic
A sentence stating that some, none, or all of the things belonging to a subject class are also things belonging to a predicate class.
There are three 'PROPOSITIONS' for you--the only three kinds we are going to use in this Game:
Lastly, if you would like to have a definition of the word 'PROPOSITION' itself, you may take this: