What's the difference between corollary and proposition?

Corollary


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is given beyond what is actually due, as a garland of flowers in addition to wages; surplus; something added or superfluous.
  • (n.) Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition; a consequence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This response was compound and was not due to the activity of the identified corollary discharge interneurons, CDI-2 and CDI-3, that are fired by the SGs.
  • (2) An interesting corollary of the present studies is the disappearance of metastability at chain lengths of about 20-22 carbon atoms.
  • (3) Market rules will be important – a cap on individual donations at a low level is a necessary corollary of structural change.
  • (4) A corollary to this suggestion is the fact that, in the giraffe, as in most other Artiodactyls, the vertebral blood does not participate in the supply of cephalic structures because it is confined to the cervical region by the pressure barrier in the carotid-vertebral anastomosis.
  • (5) A corollary is that daily cholate secretion is likely to be normal in these conditions and that therefore the propensity of bile to form cholesterol gall stones is not likely to be directly related to bile salt pool size.
  • (6) The inhibition is mediated by a bilaterally symmetrical pair of reidentifiable feeding neurons that are members of the "corollary discharge" population in the buccal ganglion.
  • (7) The postulate of the non-neurotic nature of alexithymia, along with its many psychopathological and technical corollaries, is completely contradicted by the present findings.
  • (8) A corollary to this view is that protective additives such as glycerol protect cells by acting colligatively to reduce the electrolyte concentration at any subzero temperature.
  • (9) A corollary purpose was to determine the need for inactive technologists, the hiring practices employed, the existence of institutionally sponsored retraining programs, and the institutional views toward providing such programs.
  • (10) Thus, we did not identify a reliable corollary test to the histologic diagnosis of mucosal dysplasia in ulcerative colitis.
  • (11) As a corollary, hyperexposure to corticosteroids induces widespread changes of neuronal cell biology which are of clinical significance for depression research (e.g.
  • (12) It is suggested that the failure of the neonate to sustain adoptive immune responses is explicable on the basis of an active suppression and, as a corollary, unresponsiveness resulting either from macrophage immaturity or the transfer of maternal antibody is discountered as a likely explanation for the immunological behavior of the newborn rat towards the antigens examined.
  • (13) The corollaries to these changes are more restrictive admission criteria, increased severity of patient illness, and changes in patient care.
  • (14) I1 and I2 cells showed consistent corollary discharge bursts with little or no additional activity beyond the duration of the burst.
  • (15) Overall equations of the model and graphical corollaries are presented.
  • (16) These reasons include the following: the simplicity of the electrical signals which are the normal input and output; the availability of a variety of stereotyped behaviors to characterize the system as a whole; the case with which individual receptors or primary afferents can be activated; the demonstrated presence of corollary discharge and reafference mechanisms for motor control over sensory input; the presence of highly specialized CNS structures which have evolved to meet the unusual demands of the electrosensory system.
  • (17) To explore these theories in males, we tested a corollary of these hypotheses: are male rats of the same weight all at the same level of sexual maturation irrespective of prior growth rate?
  • (18) The diversity of beta gene products may be an important corollary to the functional diversity of G proteins.
  • (19) The corollary is that induction of the mono-oxygenases by environmental agents, both recognised and unidentified, is a primary event in pancreatic disease.
  • (20) As a corollary, these tumors had worse prognosis than the others.

Proposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
  • (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
  • (n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
  • (n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
  • (n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
  • (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
  • (n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data support the proposition that the latency of P300 corresponds to stimulus evaluation time and is independent of response selection.
  • (2) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
  • (3) The major propositions of self-efficacy theory are described and related to the experience of women approaching labor.
  • (4) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
  • (5) This paper briefly explores the following propositions: People usually attend their doctors with complaints of individual functioning.
  • (6) This study tests the proposition that selected behaviors of both mother and infant during feeding are predictors of weight gain during the 1st mth of life.
  • (7) Selection of dominant follicle(s)--a speculative proposition assuming timely and selective activation of the IGF-I system in "chosen" follicles.
  • (8) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
  • (9) To evaluate the generality of this proposition we studied procedural learning on three different tasks in an amnesic patient who displayed no signs of intellectual deterioration including problem-solving difficulty.
  • (10) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
  • (11) Meanwhile, California voters pass Proposition 8, the controversial ballot measure that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
  • (12) This proposition is justified by the severe side effects of the currently used chronic anticonvulsant drug therapy in febrile seizures (phenobarbital and valproate).
  • (13) In view of the facts that uric acid is a common end-product of human and animal metabolism, it is abundantly present in the avian faecal matter and is capable of inducing mucoid growth and capsule formation in dry growing non-encapsulated strains or in an otherwise rough looking hypha forming isolate, its role in studying the phylogenesis of C. neoformans and its pathogenicity seems to be an important proposition.
  • (14) The dotcom fiasco, and that is what it looks like, noting as we do many more complaints over praise for the current proposition, leaves a bitter taste for investors to our minds.
  • (15) The author rejects the proposition, encountered in some parts of the psychoanalytic and social-science literature, that certain types of disturbances correspond to certain epochs or forms of society.
  • (16) The government would also be making a big call if it refused to budge because it would risk having to negotiate with the disparate group of crossbench senators to salvage the deal, a difficult proposition on such a significant trade agreement.
  • (17) It is first reasserted that the idea that the problem drinking paradigm is nothing more than a bid by psychologists to take over the alcohol studies field is neither a useful nor serious proposition.
  • (18) "The moon is very visible and any proposition by another country to set up a permanent presence there would be unacceptable to the Americans."
  • (19) Although the amino acid sequences of the two ferritin subunits (H and L) diverge in about 50% of the coding region, their five alpha-helices and the exon sizes of their genes are compatible with the proposition that they diverged from a single ancestral gene.
  • (20) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.

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