Sentence examples for a common supposition from inspiring English sources

The first principle was a common supposition in Bayle's day, and so obviously caused no controversy.

A common supposition among the financially naive is that you should take out a mortgage, whether you need one or not, because the tax deduction for the interest will leave you better off.

The common supposition was that the name derived from a creature of a man with the head of an ox, a figure of which served as the barge's figurehead.

The personal and common supposition is twofold.

The first division is into suppositio communis (common supposition) and suppositio discreta (discrete supposition)—e.g., the terms homo (man) and Sortes (Socrates) respectively.

This gloss of the common supposition is intended to be neutral on the controversy between judgmentalists, who hold that emotions essentially involve beliefs or judgments, and their opponents.

Common supposition is divided into 'determinate supposition', in which one refers to everything falling under the term's signification disjunctively, as in 'some man runs' = 'this man or that man or the other man... runs', and 'confused supposition', in which the term refers to everything falling under its signification, but not disjunctively.

His ideas were contrary to the common supposition that plants were usually self-fertilising, and so every summer Darwin investigated the contribution of insect pollination to the cross-pollination of flowers.

Common suppositions for this sudden change are family pressure and the wish to avoid being raped in retaliation for dressing secularly.

For those who accepted simple supposition as supposition for a common nature, "Man is a species" had a singular subject.

In the other, two unequal circles are constructed about a common centre, and from the supposition that the larger circle is composed of points, part of an angle is shown to be equal to the whole, in violation of Euclid's axiom V. William of Ockham (c.