Sentence examples for false supposition from inspiring English sources

His seminal Penguin Book of English Folk Songs from 1958, compiled with Ralph Vaughan Williams, was intended to dismiss "the false supposition that folk songs are always 'quite nice'" and return folk to its earthy roots.

New age gurus such as Deepak Chopra cite epigenetics as a way of changing your life, under the false supposition that genes are destiny, and epigenetic changes brought on by lifestyle choices such as meditation "allows us almost unlimited influence on our fate".

Aristotle remarks that Zeno relies on the false supposition that time is composed of indivisible "nows" or instants (b8 9), a point he soon repeats in identifying the argument purporting to show that "the moving arrow is standing still" as the third of Zeno's paradoxes of motion (b30 3).

In any case, even if the nature of disagreements lends some plausibility to cognitivism, moral realists need also to respond to the error theorist's contention that the arguments and disagreements all rest on some false supposition to the effect that there are actually facts of the sort there would have to be for some of the claims to be true.

Our supposition is false, and there exists the initial problem (6) such that the corresponding solution y = y ∗ ( t ) satisfies the inequalities (7) for every t ∈ [ τ ( t 0 ), ∞ ] T. The theorem is proved.

Yet, newly emerging mechanist doctrines of the 17th century imply that these suppositions are false.

Yesterday, she called that supposition untrue.

On either view, the distinctive nature of moral disagreement is seen as well explained by the supposition that moral realism is false, either because cognitivism is false or because an error theory is true.

Moreover, since deriving this contradiction does not rely on the supposition that some proposition is neither true nor false, appealing to a weak notion of truth will not help with this problem.

Even though aspirin relieved my previous headaches, there's no contradiction in supposing that it won't relieve the one I'm having now, so the supposition of a change in the course of nature can't be proven false by any reasoning concerning relations of ideas.

Therefore, the supposition that (x^{ast}) is not a global optimal solution for problem (P) must be false.