Sentence examples for an additional premise from inspiring English sources

Carnap, Lakatos and Hempel all argue that in theory testing we usually implicitly assume an additional premise that states that there are no disturbing factors.

If that is true, the simple argument won't go through: Rather, an additional premise will be required to the effect that 'correct' in (CM) is used normatively.

A second theme, which Ashworth says was the most usual thing to say, is also found in Buridan: additional inferences, such as contraposition, become valid when supplemented by an additional premise asserting that the terms in question are non-empty.

In the first case above, we start with an effect (the planets not twinkling) and determine its cause (the planets being near) by finding an appropriate additional premise, and in the second case, having determined the cause, we reverse the process to display the passage from cause to effect.

These are typically enthymematic consequences, i.e. consequences with a 'missing premise' (with the additional premise, they become a valid syllogism).

FOOTNOTES [1]  An example of modus ponens: From the premise that if Spot is a dog, then he is warmblooded, and the additional premise that Spot really is a dog, we can infer that Spot is in fact warm-blooded.

The success of their strategy depends on the plausibility of the original entailment intuitions turning on our implicitly assuming the additional premise in question.

It rests crucially on the additional premise that each player must know, and reasons on the basis of knowing, that the other player is economically rational.

An argument infers from given premises to a given conclusion; a different argument, with a different force, moves from some other (additional) premises to that conclusion.

The obvious additional premises are: (i) If a perceptual state has relevant mental properties in addition to its representational properties, they are introspectible.

The company's cable network delivers broadband to over half of all UK homes, and there's a current project to extend this to four million additional premises over the next five years.