Sentence examples for In supposition, from inspiring English sources

Shakily challenging the apparent, the almost certain, this flimsy exercise in supposition was tenuous and vague.

What his account lacks in scholarly scrutiny, it makes up for in exuberant supposition, while bringing the old riddles to a new audience.

To find out what elderly people in the province of Guadalajara do in their leisure/free time and daily walking, in the supposition that these can be improved.

Generally, the cause has been found in the supposition of some primordial ignorance or error rather than in a sinful act of disobedience or revolt i.e., in an intellectual rather than a moral defect.

Not surprisingly, terms in the propositions of logic are said to occur in material supposition, since logic concerns the conventional classification of significant utterances and patterns of reasoning and persuasion.

In this supposition, Lotze believes that the central difficulty for all such investigations in this area is an inevitable but nonetheless unsavory dependence upon "uncertain causes of which we can form no conception" (Micro, I, p. 514).

The legend is that it contains books written, in the supposition of librarians, by lunatics.

The trio Skeleton Key, fronted by the bassist and singer Eric Sanko, grounded the evening in the supposition that even outer-orbit rock bands like Tomahawk have connections back to pop music.

And Darwin was right in his supposition that the agoutis and cavies are restricted ("endemic") to the western hemisphere.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it became commonplace to require a nota materialitatis (a sign of the material use) for a term in material supposition.

The phrase "be it in mental supposition" might be taken to mean that the subject term is ampliated to the possible, so that "every J is B" is to be taken as "every possible J is B".