basic proposition

基本解释

A basic proposition of economics is that talk is cheap.
经济学的一个基本命题是，言语是廉价的。
The basic proposition of this essay is, using a term borrowed from Weber, that there is an elective affinity between the new times cooperation and the new state-socie.
本文的一个基本命题是：当代中国的农民合作与新型国家—社会关系的构建具有韦伯意义上的选择性亲和关系。
It seems that many problems can be reduced to this basic proposition as to how to research ancient Chinese literary theory under the contemporary cultural context.
似乎很多问题都可以归结到如何在现代文化语境下研究中国古代文论这样一个基本命题。

In the subsequent eight years of litigation, arguments centred on a basic proposition.
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In accordance with this basic proposition, when Abbas rejected Olmert's offer, and made no counteroffer, it was naturally assumed that Olmert's proposal was rendered null and void.
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But it is a nice object lesson in the basic economic proposition first put forward by David Ricardo as the Iron Law of One Price.
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