Sentence examples for absolute premises from inspiring English sources

First, the "absolute" (mutlaqa, often translated "assertoric") propositions have truth-conditions stipulated such that they are temporally modalised (by an elided "at least once", so that, for example, the contradictory of an absolute is not an absolute, absolute e-propositions do not convert, second-figure syllogisms with absolute premises are sterile; see also 2.3.1 below).

Harkin said Bridgepoint was "a scam, an absolute scam... premised on aggressively recruiting largely low-income, disadvantaged students... collecting their federal grants and loans even as the vast majority of students drop out... and lavishly rewarding executives and shareholders with mostly taxpayer dollars".

Religion premises an absolute authority over the self, which trumps everything else.

As he sees it, part of the problem is that induction may be supposed to lead to absolute, universal, and certain premises, while in reality it leads to merely probable belief.

The author's gender gave authority to the novel's premise of absolute carnal surrender as an avenue to divine grace, and Aury was the first woman to write so frankly and unsentimentally about her fantasies of bondage.

It is a belief premised on an absolute faith.

Tanya Stephenson This 20-minute show by Tof Théatre, from Belgium, made the absolute most of its simple premise: the torso of a puppet reconstructs its own body using what it finds on a work table.

A good starting point would be the premise that neither is absolute.

The Kantian constructivist defense of the objectivity of moral obligations appears to be based on a realist premise, that is, the absolute value of humanity.

The UON network rests on the premise that as an absolute minimum 1 2% of pregnant women shall need a major obstetric intervention to save their lives [ 9].

The premise is set up with absolute seriousness and Hitchcockian precision.