How To Use Supposition In A Sentence

A growing body of evidence supports the supposition that the quantitative depletion of mtDNA, once thought to be a consequence of type 2 diabetes, could be a causative factor in pathogenesis.
He is particularly critical of the supposition that no one suffers innocently since all are born into sin.
From the fourteenth century onwards, other properties were also abandoned, so that finally the important lasting properties were signification, supposition, ampliation and restriction, and the supposition of relatives. Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
`Have you taken any steps to corroborate this supposition? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION

Methods In this paper, the authors introduced orthonormal contrast transformation to avoid auto-correlation, and proposed the tests of presuppositions by likelihood ratio statistics.
However, this is just the inevitable defeasibility of any form of inference that depends on background empirical presuppositions.
`Have you taken any steps to corroborate this supposition? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Neither does it follow, that, on the supposition of the satisfaction pleaded for, the freedom, pardon, or acquitment of the person originally guilty and liable to punishment must immediately and “ipso facto” ensue. A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity
Cultural presupposition is a kind of thinking pattern and behavioral model which establishes itself on the basis of cultural context.
It is a reasonable supposition that many mothers would welcome the offer of part-time work.
Such a broad range may seem innocuous, but it blurs the lines between supposition and fact. Times, Sunday Times
I think what also countervailed any condemning supposition that Roosevelt sacrificed servicemen to get the US into a war with Japan was the real determination, lethality and tenacity of the dictatorial enemies of the US, and Europe. AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"
The Christian idea of humanity is one such presupposition, and in our country, it is the culturally dominant one.
The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Try first the supposition that the sower is the Lord himself; of him, in that case, it is immediately said that he sleeps, and rises night and day, and that the seed meanwhile springs up, he knows not how. The Parables of Our Lord
The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands absolutely firm, whether or not one opts for the view that radical failure of the presupposition would deprive the statement of a truth-value. Peter Frederick Strawson
On the repetition of this same experience we were forced to the supposition that there is an _intimate bond, with laws of its own, between the unintelligible and complicated nature of the dream and the difficulties attending communication of the thoughts connected with the dream_. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
That is mere supposition!
Others questioned myriad technical claims and suppositions in the report that led to the government's conclusion that the trailers were germ labs that could be used to cook up anthrax or other bioweapons.
There is a worrying supposition that those in high places should have special immunities because of the pressures on them. Times, Sunday Times
Most Baptists have suspected its adhesion to a government or to leftist politics, a supposition that led to its open rejection.
But he does not engage in a moral defence of the ideology of liberalism; rather his strategy is the much deeper one of showing that totalitarianism is typically based upon historicist and holist presuppositions, and of demonstrating that these presuppositions are fundamentally incoherent. Karl Popper
As mentioned above, and as we discuss in Part IV, these suppositions are in some tension with existing evidence.
In most cases, however, this kind of mutual informing included only assumptions and suppositions.
Secondly, metaphor presupposition can be judged successfully by the true-false value method and the "negation test".
This is all supposition, as no one knows what Novak told the investigators, but it is supposition that manages to tie together the mysteries of Fitzgerald's long and seemingly unfruitful investigation.
Presupposition, as a notion borrowed from philosophy a controversial issue in the linguistic field since 1970.
His pedantic freakish oration and the inerudite suppositions of his talk made my jaw drop! WordPress.com News
Though the term of “possibility” in the supposition, and “may” in the inference, seem to be equipollent, yet to render them of the same significancy as to the argument in hand, they must both be used in the same respect. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
His whole behavior gives color to the supposition that he was the accomplice of a pretended death.
Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse.
Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
Such a contrary view has been seen as destabilising the supposition of heteronormative sexuality with its attendant conscious and unconscious structures which determine behaviour.
That he did most truly and sincerely believe the existence of “debils-debils” we had proof every evening, for he would sit at the door of his grass hut, maintain a big, dancing fire, and sing lustily under the supposition that a good discordant corroboree was the most effective scare. My Tropic Isle
The discovery gave rise to much fanciful conjecture; it was even said that the mylodon had been domesticated and kept tame in the caves; but Doctor Moreno laughed at the supposition and said that it lacked any foundation in fact. VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant
Notice that the therapist did not explain or justify this presupposition in a preamble but simply embedded it in the question.
This sounds like entire supposition, and I would like to know what reasoning is behind it.
Such a circular argument, which relies on its own suppositions as proof, can be used to justify anything.
All the evidence appears to support this supposition.
Secondly, it analyses the risk of suppositional sale, introduces the risk evaluation methods and points out the detailed measures to avoid risk.
There is nothing to warrant the supposition that the Bahamas ever had more than a very sparse aboriginal population.
Hypotheses are suppositions about causes which may be entertained by a scientist in cases where it is not practical to induce the separate laws.
Readers, bloggers, leave your suppositions in Comments; satire and snark are welcome.
These are areas in which such vocabularies truly are contingent, and unpacking our presuppositions about their finality is a useful practice. Richard Rorty
The argument explores, therefore, the presuppositions of this self-consciousness.
Under a presupposition of that its frog wasn't worn, a simple formula for calculating the abrasion limitation of DZ(DSZ)35 plowshare was brought forward in the paper.
When we take up an ancient text, seeking to understand it and expecting it to speak to us, deep calling to our deep, we do so with certain presuppositions, inexplicit and unconscious, never with an empty, unprepossessed mind. Circle of understanding
Strong suppositions began at this point to emerge.
Rejects uniformitarian ages as based on unprovable presuppositions The Funniest Page on the Internet
At the root of the two questions of Augé, there appear to be two presuppositions: first, that the ‘reform of the reform’ can [only] consist either of a return to the Rite of Pius V, or in following the conciliar decisions. Roman Professor, Priest and member of Papal Liturgical Office speaks on Benedict's New Liturgical Movement
But I heartily agree with your supposition on information technologies 'impact on efficiency, e.g. in procurement and logistics or gov't stats on the economy (a poll as it were), particularly in regard to Coase and organisational program size complexity. Policy in a Fog, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The four essays do cohere around some basic shared presuppositions, stances, and hermeneutics.
New researches, however, have led to the supposition that the odorous principle of quinces is derived from the ether of pelargonic acid. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
It is said that the specific name _paradisiaca_ is derived, either from a supposition that the plantain was the forbidden fruit of Eden [151], or from an Arabic legend that Adam and Eve made their first aprons of the leaves of this tree, which grow to a length of five to six feet, with a width of 12 to 14 inches. The Philippine Islands
Ordinarily, comets are conspicuous at their perihelia, as being their shortest distances from the sun, which is the focus of their orbit, and inasmuch as a parabola is but an ellipse with its axis indefinitely produced, for some short portion of its pathway the orbit may be indifferently considered either one or the other; but in this particular case the professor was right in adopting the supposition of its being parabolic. Off on a Comet
It's a weak supposition - unworthy of the sharp-witted Miss Bennet.
Now, motion in a body is known to be capable of being imparted to another body contiguous to it; and the intervention of a hypothetical elastic fluid occupying the space between the sun and the earth, supplies the contiguity which is the only condition wanting, and which can be supplied by no supposition but that of an intervening medium. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
The link must be a matter of investigation rather than of presupposition.
It seeks to define, establish, defend, and vindicate the presuppositions of Christian theology in the areas of metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology.
My reverend friend is wrong in supposing that I admit DESIGN, and yet refuse to admit the force of the _design argument_, "On the supposition, then, that _law and order_ are manifestations of _design_, the design argument might be valid and conclusive: but" _no conceivable order_ "could prove the existence of God; why? Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
A very widespread but mistaken presupposition is that Revelation contains secret, coded messages, specifying the dates and details of cataclysmic events just around the corner.
Nevertheless, parody remains within the economy of presupposition by its genre's definition.
First, often the very questions which challenge the presuppositions of a given problem are those which on their face seem most naïve.
Consolidation through the concretion of substances dissolved in the sea is unlikely, for, in the first place, there are strata, such as siliceous matter, which are insoluble, and which could not therefore have been in solution; and, in the second place, the appearance of the strata is contrary to this supposition. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
Furthermore, as the Sauk was a stranger, the natural supposition would be that he was an ally of the enemy. Footprints in the Forest
It's not surprising that critics celebrate novels which reflect their own prejudices and presuppositions.
`Have you taken any steps to corroborate this supposition? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The film succeeds a little, if without imagination, in assailing the assumptions and hypocrisy of privileged white folks, but the film indulges its own presuppositions.
If a thing were never perceived, or inferred from perception, we should indeed never know that it existed; but once perceived or inferred it may be more conducive to comprehension and practical competence to regard it as existing independently of our perception; and our ability to make this supposition is registered in the difference between the two words _to be_ and _to be perceived_ -- words which are by no means synonymous but designate two very different relations of things in thought. The Life of Reason
Even the supposition of Jewish influence on the media elicited a sharp, immediate repudiation.
Two such figures alighting at the inn gate did not pass through the yard unnoticed and unadmired by the guests and attendants, some of whom fairly took to their heels, on the supposition that these outlandish creatures were the avant-couriers or heralds of a French invasion. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
My first argument: that no finite set of presuppositions can account for the practically uncountable number of human perspectives.
Thus Justice Douglas' dissent was based on an unproven supposition.
`Have you taken any steps to corroborate this supposition? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The mystery of the mongoos and its antidote has been referred to the supposition that there may be some peculiarity in its organisation which renders it _proof against_ the poison of the serpent. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
Supposition is a theory of reference and it is the coreferentiality of terms in the different sentences in a syllogism that is the decisive factor in determining whether the principle of uniform substitution is satisfied or not. The Statue of a Writer
Now consider the principium tertii exculsi: it claims that every supposition is either true or false; in mathematics this means that for every supposed embedding of a system into another, satisfying certain conditions, we can either accomplish such an embedding by a construction, or we can arrive by a construction at the arrestment of the process which would lead to the embedding. The Development of Intuitionistic Logic
I had a supposition, since he bills his blog as "Just Thomism" that his conceptions were basically Aristotelian-Thomistic. February 12th, 2009
Russell, on the other hand, makes no distinction between assertion and presupposition.
While analogy is not a tainted operation in and of itself, automatic analogy is the means by which presupposition comes to dictate the reading of the text.
Of the hot weather that you mention, we have [not] had in Derbyshire very much, and for myself I seldom feel heat, and suppose that my frigidity is the effect of my distemper; a supposition which naturally leads me to hope that a hotter climate may be useful. Life Of Johnson
Indeed, these presuppositions have been confirmed by the general theory: They are spatiality and temporality as "unintuitive schema of order" in general (as distinct from any particular chronometrical relations), the law of causality and presupposition of continuity, the principle of sufficient reason, and the conservation laws. Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity
For him, this is the be all and end all of everything, his key unargued and indefensible bedrock presupposition that simply must be accepted. Archive 2008-01-01
Let us remember that so many of their assertions are mere suppositions and theories which cannot be proved, and which may very well be disproved, as so many have been disproved during the past hundred years.
Now, there are what I have said are suppositions.
They have carried out a wealth of painstaking research while consciously seeking to resist the presuppositions of these established camps.
But since by supposition x is borrowing the properties from different parts y and z, x really is H, and really is ~H, but is not H and ~H in the same respect. Borrowing Properties
Our literary canons have largely been constructed on such Renaissance suppositions.
At every turn the novel's implied reader is encouraged to read using a priori expectations, or presuppositions.
Ultimately we get to the facts as opposed to the suppositions.
This sounds like entire supposition, and I would like to know what reasoning is behind it.
With pragmatic presupposition in English advertisement rhetoric devices, advertisement makers seek the identicalness or similarities with consumers in terms of value, attitude, belief, knowledge, etc.
Regulations seem to be introduced, on a whim or a supposition, without any thought about how they are going to be enforced.
The Druids were known by name, but scarcely more than by name, to the Greeks, who derived the appellation erroneously from _drus_, an oak, under the supposition that the Druids preferred to perform their religious rites under the shadows of oaken groves. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.
I am here reading ‘supposition’ as Austen's thematic version of presupposition, since the latter remains a linguistically specific term.
His version of events is pure supposition .
Despite any focus-derailing suppositions, my reference has clearly shown that the Korean nominative case marker, stripped of any nuance of deixis or definiteness, is still etymologically traced back to a demonstrative. Nipping the PIE ergative *-s theory right in the bud
What this intrinsical perfection of habitual grace, given it by confirmation, is, he cannot tell; for in those who are so confirmed in grace he asserts only an impeccability upon supposition, and that not alone from their intrinsical principle, as it is with the blessed in heaven, but from help and assistance also daily communicated from without. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
There is no direct evidence, and what follows is too contingent on a series of hypothetical suppositions to be convincing.
The report is based entirely on supposition.
Your judgment of the case is based on the presupposition that the witness is telling the truth.
Contrary to popular supposition, a geography degree isn't that much help. Times, Sunday Times
Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.
This is, therefore, an absolutely necessary need and justifies its presupposition not merely as an allowable hypothesis but as a practical postulate.
And every law, properly so called, proceeds on these suppositions of obedience or disobedience, whence its commanding and punishing power are inseparate from its nature. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
No longer is there even any colourable claim (weak though it may be) that the preznit needs candid advice (and the supposition that he'd get better advice if no one else is looking too closely at it; the contrary is probably more accurate, that if the advice offered is to be the best possible, it ought to withstand the scrutiny of multiple eyes). Balkinization
Hypotheses, suppositions tentatively accepted, help the therapist to focus on what seems most relevant at that moment.
But this is to fall back upon a supposition of the "mediumistic" type, and takes no count of the cases of replies to questions which were unknown to everybody present, and brings us to the single dilemma: either there is intelligence in the human sense in the animal, or a relationship of the mediumistic type above described between the several minds concerned. Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals
Mr. Smith's method of proving that every circle is 3-1/8 diameters is to assume that it is so, -- "if you dislike the term datum, then, by hypothesis, let 8 circumferences be exactly equal to 25 diameters," -- and then to show that every other supposition is thereby made absurd. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
The committee came down firmly in favour of ‘the supposition that the choleraic infection multiplies rather in air than in water.’
In addition to providing presuppositions for science, religious doctrines have also offered sanction or justification.
They are making all sorts of suppositions about our possible reaction.
But a fairly uncontroversial example can be found in his use of supposition to examine the structure of certain complex terms that would remain unanalyzed on the traditional account of syllogistic inferences.
There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts.
The disjunction that has been caused derives from presupposition alone, assisted by Henry, its agent.
Your judgment of the case is based on the presupposition that the witness is telling the truth.
The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them. The Book of the Damned
Once she had factual evidence, she confronted the person based on fact, rather than supposition. Times, Sunday Times
Another point, justifying the supposition of foul play, was the significant fact that Perrin's gun, with his name rudely carved on the stock, still lay in the camp _undischarged_. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
In the case of the moral imperative, and the supposition of freedom which it necessarily involves, the law, the power (to fulfil it) and the rational will that determines the maxim, constitute all the elements that form the notion of juridical duty. The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
But if it is an indemonstrable principle it is a position, which is divided into supposition without qualification and definition.
The case of subcontraries will be revealed to include an unjustified presupposition in the section concerning the modern square of opposition.
There is an inconsistency between the alleged non-causability of the past, the transfer of non-causability principle, and the supposition that a proposition about the past entails a proposition about the future. Foreknowledge and Free Will
It is true that the tools of science cannot be used to change the mind of a committed solipsist who believes they are a brain in a vat, manipulated by an evil demon; yet, those of us who accept the presuppositions of empirical science are able to make progress. Sam Harris: Toward a Science of Morality
Faith," he said, "suppose (it is a very presumptuous supposition, but one may _suppose_ anything) suppose when my hands are free to take care of my Mignonette, that I should have the offer of two or three different gardens wherein to place her. Say and Seal, Volume II
The following are facts, not hearsay or supposition, and they are backed up with records going back 25 years.
For a time things are not unlively; and even the very dangerous experiment of a supper -- one of those at which Frederic's guests were supposed to have perfectly "free elbows" and availed themselves of the supposition at their peril -- a supper with Voltaire, La A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
They say that one could be rational in accepting a noetic system that has atheism as its foundational presupposition, since there is no good objective evidence for God's existence.
There is no reason to assume you will have the same beliefs in these two cases, under these suppositions of differing strengths.
I marketing manager jobs as distressfully god has obstructive my bowleg grievously to complemental my celesta to sussex i was too suppositional to see when i was at irrelevantly. Rational Review
Husserl wished to render philosophy into a rigorous science, and therefore labored to develop a systematic method for observing the world (the perceived noema) purely and without the presuppositions that can sediment themselves into our personal experiential histories and cause us to mistakenly assume what we do not apprehend, but found that this endeavor required an underpinning understanding of both the nature of the observer and the nature of observation itself (the subject and the noesis of perception). The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
Anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, Robin Dunbar offers two suppositions that are pertinent here. Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
Communists and community - when we say communist hypothesis is possible on basis of egalitarian presupposition, communism has been permeated by its opposite, namely inegalitarian tendencies. Infinite thØught
Part of what has contributed to the conflation of these two problems is the holist presuppositions of those who originally made them famous. Underdetermination of Scientific Theory
Several philosophical objections and issues have arisen from visitors about it - quite apart from its presupposition of some version of a ‘big bang’ cosmogeny.
That blog commenter admits: "I seem to have difficulty seeing the particular differences between an alethic possibility and contingency, on the one hand, and epistemic notion and supposition, on the other. Modality and Hamlet
This is distinctly recognized by Pliny, [5] though their common use of aqueducts, in preference to pipes, has led to a supposition that this great hydrostatical principle was unknown to them. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
The presupposition to realize a good national economic recycling is to a reasonable industrial struture.
The report is based entirely on supposition.
`Have you taken any steps to corroborate this supposition? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Gesture recognition provides the user a means to interact in suppositional environment, which is a kind of human-computer interaction techniques most expected.
Judging by the sound of that question, I can make two suppositions.
It is a reasonable supposition on our part therefore to consider that, if escorted back to the edge of the contiguous zone, vessels would return to Indonesia.
That article was based on pure supposition.
Doug: And your mention of parsimony is not something that is directly derived from the observation, it is your presupposition. Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. Ulysses
From these suppositions, with many other of like import, it is evident that there is a pregnant, strong, overpowering propension in all true believers to walk holily and to live righteously: so that to refrain sinning in the kind intended is no such great mastery, no such matter of difficulty, unto such men; and that when they are overcome and fall into sin, it is through a mere voluntary neglect. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
They generally begin by knowing they are lying, but eventually become convinced of the 'truthiness' of their supposition. Times, Sunday Times
It is a reasonable supposition that many mothers would welcome the offer of part-time work.
You are correct in your suppositions about the source of his wealth.
All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
Discourse ethics has an a priori foundation: the presuppositions of discourse or argument.
But on the basis of this presupposition it offers at the same time a considerably antirationalist model of religion, a modern "mystic": The Absolute is not to be believed, but to be experienced. Close your mouth, no barking like a dog!
In fact, the article includes numerous suppositions and makes inferences that miss the mark because of inaccuracies, misunderstood information, and a lack of research.
This duty is founded on something that is indeed quite independent of these suppositions and is of itself apodeictically certain, namely, the moral law; and so far it needs no further support by theoretical views as to the inner constitution of things, the secret final aim of the order of the world, or a presiding ruler thereof, in order to bind me in the most perfect manner to act in unconditional conformity to the law. The Critique of Practical Reason
So simple supposition was readapted to model reference to common concepts or intentions.
These experiments may be explained, either on the supposition of the presence of humate of lime, or by supposing that the carbonate of lime first decomposed the salts of ammonia, and that the liberated alkali combined with the organic matter. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
His comment stresses the most important presupposition about the activity of spectators: spectating creates and reinforces our social, political, and even bodily place in the world.
His version of the events is pure supposition.
Using Clendinnen's private lives to preface this very public one is a tactic meant to stay the hand of presupposition and the stereotypes it holds.
The fallacies noted throughout are the standard ones discussed in Aristotle's De Sophisticis Elenchis: the fallacy of equivocation; the fallacy of accident; the fallacy of the composite and divided senses; the fallacy of the consequent; the fallacy of absolute and qualified senses; the fallacy of many causes of truth; amphiboly; improper supposition. Richard the Sophister
How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
Negative constructions have an overdetermined role with respect to presupposition.
For example, in ˜Every dog is a mammal™, both ˜dog™ and ˜mammal™ have personal supposition. William of Ockham
These are not mere suppositions or wishful thinkings.
There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts.
It is, in some sense, a real puzzle: there is nothing particularly deterministic about Newtonian physics; many who accepted Newtonian physics I would go so far as to say the overwhelming majority were not determinists, and were clearly not inconsistent in this; you can only get rationally from Newtonian physics to determinism by a vast number of controvertible suppositions; and so forth. Wisdom from Maurice Blondel; and the Analogical Leap
Given the electoral history of Britain since 1979 these suppositions were reasonable enough.
The police are working on the supposition that he was murdered.
Nonverbal communication includes gestures, facial expressions, and body positions (known collectively as body language), as well as unspoken understandings and presuppositions, and cultural and environmental conditions that may affect any encounter between people. Nonverbal communication
Moreover, the sceptical argument we have been considering has its own presuppositions, which it claims to know.
The treatment of presupposition is thus generalized and integrated into the discourse update procedure.
Once she had factual evidence, she confronted the person based on fact, rather than supposition. Times, Sunday Times
You are correct in your suppositions about the source of his wealth.
His version of events is pure supposition .
Further light is thrown on homosexuality in Australia by the supposition of Spencer and Gillen that the _mika_ operation (urethral subincision), an artificial hypospadias, is for the purpose of homosexual intercourse. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
Rawls has since tried to eliminate the universalist presuppositions from his theory.
The foreign minister said he is calling a meeting Tuesday among pertinent cabinet ministers on the presupposition that the two leaders might decide to enter negotiations on concluding an agreement.
There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts.
It's a weak supposition - unworthy of the sharp-witted Miss Bennet.
He has tutored Catherine in a form of intertextual ‘reading’ by analogy that forces likeness through automatic and inappropriate presupposition.
All too often in this book, the author is forced to fall back on her own suppositions and general guesswork.
It seems a reasonable supposition.
We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.
Primitive is grounded upon the supposition that the mind, when it is withdrawn and collected into itself, and not diffused into the organs of the body, hath some extent and latitude of prenotion; which therefore appeareth most in sleep, in ecstasies, and near death, and more rarely in waking apprehensions; and is induced and furthered by those abstinences and observances which make the mind most to consist in itself. The Advancement of Learning
Extract facts, suppositions and nuggets of information from technical explanations.
It seems definite, on the other hand, that the Missa Sine nomine was composed for King Ferdinand, a supposition encouraged by the distich found at the head of this mass in the Verona manuscript: “Ferdinande sacer inter divos referende cantica tinctoris suscipe parva tui” “O Ferdinand, saintly enough to be counted amongst the gods, accept these little compositions by Tinctoris”. Archive 2009-06-01
In the latitude of 29° 30 ', longitude 41° 30', the wind slackened and veered more to the S.E. We now began to see some of that sea-plant, which is commonly called gulph-weed, from a supposition that it comes from the Gulph of Florida. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
The entire novel is positioned on the threshold of turning inside out through Austen's use of negatives and their role in relation to presupposition and to the nature of the novel's parodic voice.
As nothing indicated that the parasite was to be found in the secretions or excretions, the supposition lay near at hand, that suctorial insects would assist in carrying the parasite to a place, where it had to pass the aforementioned part of its life-cycle. Physiology or Medicine 1902 - Presentation Speech
Kant took himself to be delimiting the a priori presuppositions of experience, and of empirical science.
There's a popular supposition that we're publicly funded but the bulk of our money comes from competitive contracts.
Presupposition doesn't enter into the definition of anacoluthon. On anacolutha
Finally, in the definition of ampliation, Marsilius went back to logicians of the thirteenth century such as Peter of Spain, who had defined ampliation as an extension of supposition, whereas fourteenth-century logicians such as Albert of Saxony did not consider ampliation to be a kind of supposition. Marsilius of Inghen
Such a circular argument, which relies on its own suppositions as proof, can be used to justify anything.
Therefore, it must be the union of the past state with some supposition or set of suppositions that overarch both the past and the present. A Pictorial Doubt about a Form of Determinism
But a fairly uncontroversial example can be found in his use of supposition to examine the structure of certain complex terms that would remain unanalyzed on the traditional account of syllogistic inferences.

How To Use Supposition In A Sentence

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