knowing vs proposition

knowing

noun
  • The act or condition of having knowledge. 

adj
  • The ability to know something without being taught. 

  • Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. 

  • Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. 

  • Deliberate, wilful. 

  • Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. 

  • Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. 

prep
  • Given my knowledge about someone or something. 

proposition

noun
  • The act of offering (an idea) for consideration. 

  • An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false. 

  • A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed. 

  • In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate. 

  • The terms of a transaction offered. 

  • An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem. 

  • An idea or a plan offered. 

  • A complete sentence. 

  • The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. 

  • The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula. 

verb
  • To make an offer or suggestion to (someone). 

  • To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved). 

How often have the words knowing and proposition occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )