So far the proof appealed to a general proposition, and was deductive.
As a general proposition, all the available goods in a community are in a process of exchanging against all of the available money and credit in the community.
The minimum provisions of a good child labor law have been set forth by the committee somewhat as follows: As a general proposition, no child should be regularly employed in a gainful occupation who is under sixteen years of age.
As a general proposition, this strengthened position would tend automatically to result in higher wages.
But a general proposition is not merely a compendious form for recording and preserving in the memory a number of particular facts, all of which have been observed.
Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.
A general proposition, in short, is a proposition about a genus, taken universally.
Thus stated, the truth which was at first observed and affirmed only of particular instances, becomes a general proposition, and may, in turn, become the premiss of a process of deduction.
What is there about a general proposition to stimulate exploration?
Often we may make the meaning of a general proposition clear by citing specific instances.
Using the fourth method of development, we may give an entire composition to the explanation of the meaning of a general proposition or to the demonstration of the truth of such a proposition.
We may then redefine inductive reasoning as the process by which from many individual cases we establish the probable truth of a general proposition.
Just what this increase in surface area should be is problematical as experienced aviators disagree, but as a general proposition it may be placed at from three to four times the area of a 20-foot glider.
As a general proposition it takes much more power to propel an airship a given number of miles in a certain time than it does an automobile carrying a far heavier load.
As a general proposition a fairly satisfactory flying machine, one that will actually fly and carry the operator with it, may be constructed for $750, but it will lack the better qualities which mark the higher priced machines.
Neither does it make any difference in the character of the induction, whether the process be experiment or ratiocination, and whether the object be to infer a general proposition or an individual fact.
Thus the difference between an a priori general proposition and an empirical generalization does not come in the meaning of the proposition; it comes in the nature of the evidence for it.
Here is a general proposition of which the truth is undeniable, and yet, from the very nature of the case, we can never give an instance; because any two numbers we may think of are excluded by the terms of the proposition.
It is, that we may sometimes know a general proposition in cases where we do not know a single instance of it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general proposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
