Which term is the verbal expression of judgement that can be true or false?

• A. Judgement
• B. Proposition
• C. Term
• D. Syllogism

Answer: (B)

The term that captures a statement capable of being judged as true or false is the proposition. In traditional logic, a proposition is a declarative sentence that asserts something about a subject and its predicate, and it carries a truth value that can be evaluated as true or false. For example, “All dogs are mammals” makes a claim that can be tested for truth.

The act of judging is the mental affirmation or denial of that claim, not the sentence itself. A term is the word or group of words naming a class or concept (used within the proposition as subject or predicate), and a syllogism is a chain of related propositions used to draw a conclusion. So the verbal expression of a judgement that can be true or false is a proposition.