Sentence examples for be supposing from inspiring English sources
verb
To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
That would be, supposing he goes thirty miles an hour, that's twelve miles in, let's see, six times four is twenty-tour, six times five's thirty, twice twelve is twenty-four.
And this reading explains just what Leibniz took us to be supposing when we 'supposed certain bodies to be unchanged' in the construction of the idea of space: that they had no force, nothing causing, or making real any motion.
To try and say that the spacetime is really the same (the obvious answer) would conflict with general covariance since then one would be supposing a robust notion of spacetime points which enables one to match up the two spacetimes.
Aristotle does not give us much information about how circular demonstration was supposed to work, but the most plausible interpretation would be supposing that at least for some set of fundamental principles, each principle could be deduced from the others.
Zeno cannot be supposing that his arguments against plurality entailed the doctrine of Parmenides when that doctrine is represented in this same dialogue by Parmenides himself as something altogether more involved than the simple thesis that only one thing exists.
That gives the argument a bit more nuance, since technically Crummell is not asserting that blacks have that status; he would simply be supposing, as if for the sake of argument, that they do, but then showing that, if they do, then the psychological state of blacks counts as a harm.
