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Propositions and statements are central concepts in logic and the philosophy of language. A proposition is the content that can be true or false; it is the semantic meaning expressed by a declarative sentence. A statement is a linguistic expression that asserts something and can be assigned a truth value. In many contexts the terms are used interchangeably, but some logicians distinguish the abstract proposition from the sentence that states it.
In propositional logic, basic units are propositions (often written as p, q, r). These units can be
Examples: The proposition “The Earth orbits the Sun” is true; “If it rains, the ground is wet”
Across disciplines, “proposition” and “statement” are used to refer to the content of assertions. In mathematics,