Sentence examples for cannot suppose from inspiring English sources

One cannot suppose, any more than one can with out-of-body experiences, that such events are pure fancy; similar features are emphasized in every account.

But, however smoothly Mr Menem's visit may go, Britain cannot suppose that the Falklands irritant to good relations can then be pigeonholed.

Under conditions of reasonable pluralism, we cannot suppose that the reasoning of one member of the public is a proxy for everyone else's reasoning.

I can suppose that there aren't any bodies, and I cannot suppose that I do not think, the supposition itself being a thought.

Till he has some ideas of his own, he cannot suppose them to correspond with the conceptions of another man; nor can he use any signs for them" (Locke [1690 ] 1975 3.2.2).

On many conceptions of narrow content, however, narrow content is a more specialized and technical notion than this, and we cannot suppose that the ordinary contents of belief will include narrow contents.

Moreover, fuzzy as the concept cat may be, it is clear that not only is c a cat, but also any part cn is a cat: cn would clearly be a cat were the hair hn to be plucked out, and we cannot reasonably suppose that plucking out a hair generates a cat, so cn must already have been a cat".

John Rawls' [32] view is that since global citizens cannot be supposed to see themselves as free and equal human beings who should relate fairly to each other, we cannot build coercive social institutions that assume they do.

We may conclude, therefore, that the universe must have arisen from some "necessarily existent Being, who carries the Reason of his existence in himself; and who cannot be supposed not to exist without an express contradiction".

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.

It cannot be supposed that the question of whether one is justified in thinking that some apparent competent interlocutor is sincerely testifying that p is entirely independent of the content of their apparent assertion or of one's total evidence relevant to existence of other minds and their mental contents of the appropriate sort.