Metaproposition

Quick meaning: Metaproposition is a noun meaning (philosophy) A proposition about propositions.

Meaning

(philosophy) A proposition about propositions.

More Meanings

1. (literature) An underlying proposition that is embedded in many different statements throughout a given work or set of works.

Example Sentences

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?

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.

It cannot even be determined whether the former or the latter is the case, that is to say, whether one has arrived at a developmental-psychological proposition about individuals or a metaproposition about one’s own terminology.

Since this is to assert both p and not-p (now about metapropositions concerning the truth of first-order moral propositions), presuppositional relativism appears to be as vulnerable as semantic relativism to charges of incoherence.

Word Forms

• metapropositions

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