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- noun A
proposal made as an alternative to another, earlier proposition.
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Examples
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The first question tacitly assumes that a paradoxical reality is a reasonable (in your favorite sense, i.e., coherent) counterproposition, or not a metaphysical proposition, or that reality does not exist.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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The first question tacitly assumes that a paradoxical reality is a reasonable (in your favorite sense, i.e., coherent) counterproposition, or not a metaphysical proposition, or that reality does not exist.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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As the Republicans and Democrats fight eachother over the aspects of health care reform, with McCain especially focusing on opposition to special deals inserted in the Democratic counterproposition to the Senate health care bill, and advocating cross-state line health insurance and medical malpratice reform.
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"But the proposition per se has certain sentimentally dramatic aspects which lend it to propaganda manipulation, even in the face of the currently accepted strong counterproposition.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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"But the proposition per se has certain sentimentally dramatic aspects which lend it to propaganda manipulation, even in the face of the currently accepted strong counterproposition.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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