Sentence examples for contingent premises from inspiring English sources

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We use them in arguing from contingent premises about which we are often less than completely certain.

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For, the whole idea of inductive logic is to provide a measure of the extent to which contingent premise sentences indicate the likely truth-values of contingent conclusion sentences.

Interpreting the contingent being in premise 1 as the universe, Bertrand Russell denies that the universe needs an explanation; it just is.

Contingent on the premise that the combined agents have non-overlapping and synergistic mechanisms of actions, immediate and effective targeting of tumors with multiple agents appears a successful strategy to improve the clinical outcome of MM therapy.

Mulkidjanian and colleages [ 67] examined ATPase sequences and came to the conclusion that sodium might be the ancestral substrate, but they also noted that their conclusion is contingent on the premise that the same set of ligands conferring Na+ specifiity over H+ specificity did not arise through convergent evolution.

But one might call into question the existence of such a being without appeal to supplementary premises about contingent facts concerning the existence of evil.

Similarly, in mixed first-figure syllogisms with contingent major and assertoric minor premises, the assertoric premise must be simpliciter assertoric, but this time the criteria are that the predicate belongs to the subject per se, invariably or by natural contingency (16va, 21ra, 22ra, 25ra).

Over the centuries philosophers have suggested various instantiations for the contingent being noted in premise 1.

His strategy is to hold that the freedom of future acts is incompatible only with a different kind of necessity, and that such arguments fail when formulated in terms of this conception of necessity, since their premises and conclusions are contingent in the correlative sense of contingency.

But if the missing premise is a contingent truth (it has to be true with respect to the time indicated by the verbs of the consequence, otherwise the original material consequence does not hold), then the original material consequence holds only in some situations, namely the situations in which the contingent sentence happens to be true, and is thus an as-of-now consequence.

No sooner have the women left the premises than the next contingent reports for duty (believe it or not, Ferrara actually shows us a revolving door).

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