Sentence examples for forms the first premiss from inspiring English sources

But to rely on conjecture in order to support the very principle that forms the first premiss in any exercise in conjectural history is to come suspiciously close to arguing in a circle.

But how is the first premiss known?

We could also question either the first premiss or the application of it.

It cannot be known by inference, since the first premiss is a universal statement and the conclusions of syllogisms are particular statements.

It is said that this argument equivocates upon "esse", for in the first premiss it is "esse operatio entis", whereas in the second it is "esse habitudinis sive consequentiae".

Dharmakīrti's answer was that the truth of the first premiss is guaranteed by either of two relations obtaining between properties: causation relation (tadutpatti) and the identity relation (tādātmya).

The earliest classical Indian philosopher thought to have recognized the problem of how one comes to know the first premiss of the Indian syllogism essentially, the problem of induction seems to have been Dignāga's student, Īśvarasena (Steinkellner 1997, p. 638).

However, to know the truth of the first premiss by perception would seem to require that one know of each thing which has H, whether or not it also has S. Yet if one knew that, one would already know by perception the syllogism's conclusion.

The second premiss is known, of course, either through perception or through another inference.

This forms the first layer.

This forms the first shelf support.