Sentence examples for On supposition from inspiring English sources

Ockham took this as a statement of a natural right belonging to each "free" community, i.e. one not already under government, to establish its own law and its own government.[96] This right exists by natural law in the third sense (§6.1 above), i.e. "on supposition", namely on the supposition that the community needs law and government.

This strategy, she adds, is based on supposition, not research.

Medicine should be based on evidence and not just on supposition.

The earlier estimates had been based on supposition, as it turned out.

Most statements about terrorism – on both sides of the debate – are based on supposition.

His own fear, Pistorius said, is that the governing body, which has not contacted him, will ban him on supposition, not science.

He said the case "is based on suppositions — they have no facts".

Since then, advice to restrict fat or avoid saturated fat has been based on suppositions about what would have happened had such trials been done, not on the studies themselves.

Again, we're positing based on suppositions.

Instead, they rely on suppositions and stereotypes that don't match the underlying data on startup success.

Where many ancient and modern ideals of politics were based on suppositions about the nature of reality or of human beings, contemporary political philosophies generally operate without supposing that there are any universal or eternal truths.