Sentence examples for circular demonstration from inspiring English sources

However their position worked, the circular demonstrators claimed to have a third alternative avoiding the agnostics' dilemma, since circular demonstration gives us a regress that is both unending (in the sense that we never reach premises at which it comes to a stop) and finite (because it works its way round the finite circle of premises).

Aristotle rejects circular demonstration as an incoherent notion on the grounds that the premises of any demonstration must be prior (in an appropriate sense) to the conclusion, whereas a circular demonstration would make the same premises both prior and posterior to one another (and indeed every premise prior and posterior to itself).

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.

Fig. 10 Circular model: demonstration of finding depth resolution using a graph of ΔC against liquid depth for two example results.

"We provide an experimental demonstration that the circular hydraulic jump represents a hydrodynamic white hole," they say.

Aristotle dismisses the only remaining possibility, that demonstration might be circular, rather curtly, with the remark that this amounts to 'simply saying that something is the case if it is the case,' by which device 'it is easy to prove anything' (APo. 72b32 73a6).

This study was motivated by the recent demonstration of micromachining of high-density circular as well as linear reticulated 2D phase-array transducers, to achieve real-time high-resolution completely electronic steerable volumetric medical noninvasive ultrasound imaging.

In the mid 20th century, Ernst Mayr and Theodosius Dobzhansky championed the significance of circular overlaps or ring species as the perfect demonstration of speciation, yet in the over 50 years since, only a handful of such taxa are known.

For demonstration, circumferential tailoring framework is applied to a circular cylinder under bending and an elliptical cylinder under axial compression.

Keep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises those planning to march in Thursday's unauthorized demonstrations in Iran cities. "The heaviest weapon to carry is one rose in the hand," it says.

However, he thinks both the agnostics and the circular demosntrators are wrong in maintaining that scientific knowledge is only possible by demonstration from premises scientifically known: instead, he claims, there is another form of knowledge possible for the first premises, and this provides the starting points for demonstrations.