Sentence examples for as premises that from inspiring English sources

Aristarchus takes as premises that (1) as observed during a lunar eclipse, the diameter of Earth's shadow is twice the diameter of the Moon; (2) the Moon and Sun are each 2 degrees in angular diameter; and (3) at the time of quarter Moon, the angular distance between the Moon and the Sun is 87 degrees.

This fits most naturally with a view of dialectic as argument directed at another person by question and answer and consequently taking as premises that other person's concessions.

As noted above, the narrative reports of the interviewed funeral directors on their limited scope of strategic activities as well as the underlying strategic premises that could be reconstructed from these interviews were astonishingly similar.

You should judge this jumble argument as valid, and as having premises that you accept, and yet as having a conclusion you reject (Sorensen 2003b, 104 110).

Here, key players are premises that link otherwise separate components, such as poultry premises that are the only links between companies using separate slaughterhouses or the slaughterhouse linking the most premises.

Aiming not at perfection but at improvement, accepting the vagaries of human nature as a premise that policy must accommodate, rather than wish away, meliorism forces a longer, more calibrated approach.

As a premise that underlies our investigation, we suspect that an educational strategy in which statistics functions in a professional practice will work as a bridge between mathematics and some science (Figure 1); we see it as a promising approach that has received little attention in the literature.

Of course, even if this assumption is granted, the argument is only as strong as the premise that properties have their associated causal powers essentially.

Loopy and lovable, When the Clouds Roll By has a premise that is as bizarre as it is unpleasant.

So, if modus ponens itself is merely accepted by him as yet another premise, that won't suffice to get him to accept (Z).

Vaiśeṣika and Yogācāra join together in seeing a hearer H's knowledge that p which other philosophers see as flowing from testimony as really resulting from an inference having as one premise that the speaker S is trustworthy and as another that S has said p, to conclude that p is true.