propoziiei

Propoziție is a term used in Romanian to refer to a sentence in grammar, and, in logic and philosophy, to the content expressed by a sentence, i.e., a proposition. The word distinguishes the linguistic form of an utterance from the meaning it conveys. In Romanian, propoziție denotes a syntactic unit that communicates a thought, typically structured with a subject and predicate. In logic, the term proposition designates the verifiable content that can be true or false. The distinction between form (the sentence) and content (the proposition) is central to both linguistics and analytic philosophy.

In logic, a proposition is a declarative content that admits a truth value. It is the basic unit of propositional logic, which combines propositions with logical connectives such as and, or, not, and implies. Propositions can be atomic (P) or built from others (P and Q, not P). The truth value of a proposition depends on its terms and interpretation, not on the particular language used to express it; translations ideally preserve the same proposition.

In linguistics and grammar, a propoziție is a sentence that expresses predication about a subject. Romanian grammar classifies sentences by mood and structure: declarative, interrogative, and imperative; and by complexity: simple or compound, with subordinate clauses. The propositional content is what is asserted or asked; surface features encode tense, mood, aspect, voice, and modality. Example: Soarele răsare în est is a declarative propoziție whose proposition is that the sun rises in the east.

Historically, the concept of proposition has been central to philosophy and logic since antiquity, with later formalizations by Frege and Russell. In modern semantics, propositions are treated as truth-conditions that may be abstract entities or mental representations, depending on the theory. The distinction between propoziție (sentence form) and proposition (meaning) remains important for analyzing meaning and argument structure.