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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of propositum.

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  • noun The first identified case of an inherited disease in a family. The proband or index case. Proposita applies when the patient is female; propositus if male.

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Examples

  • No given disputation ever requires the respondent to concede proposita of the form p and not-p at different steps.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • No given disputation ever requires the respondent to concede at different steps each member of an inconsistent set of proposita.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • Tribus disputationibus in Academia Ultrajectina publice proposita.

    Henricus Regius Clarke, Desmond 2008

  • (Recall the role of doubtful irrelevant proposita in a positio.)

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • An adequate account would have to accommodate the variety of views of positio one finds in the medieval literature; the characteristic treatment of irrelevant proposita, which brings non-logical factors into play; in particular, the epistemic factors incorporated into at least most treatments.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • This suggestion provides some rationale for the otherwise mysterious treatment of irrelevant proposita, where one looks away from the posited situation back to reality to guide one's responses.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • The order in which proposita are proposed no longer matters.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • For Swyneshed, in assessing whether a propositum is relevant or irrelevant, the responses to previous proposita do not matter.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • Sed uti nostrae sententiae fides abundantior sit, alterutro calle procedam nunc hinc nunc inde proposita confirmans.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Nam de re proposita aeque nihil ceteris sentiebam; minus uero quam ceteri ipse afferebam, falsae scilicet scientiae praesumptionem.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

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