Sentence examples for from supposition from inspiring English sources

Setting out the lessons that future governments should take from the dossier episode, Chilcot emphasised "the need for vigilance to avoid unwittingly crossing the line from supposition to certainty" and "the need to be scrupulous in discriminating between facts and knowledge on the one hand and opinion, judgment and belief on the other".

So there scarcely seems reason to separate signification from supposition on this score.

Once signification is treated extensionally in this way, its only difference from supposition lies in its priority: a general term signifies all those things of which it can be truly predicated (Ockham, Summa Logicae I c. 33).

Signification, however, is had by a term prior to its particular uses or occurrences: "Now signification differs from supposition in that signification is prior to supposition" (Lambert, tr. Kretzmann and Stump, p. 105).[7] Indeed, the other properties are dependent on the signification of the term.

And from that supposition it is only a step to identifying with angels: "Rushing on with the angels, the infinite speed that is stillness, hair blown, torn back, straightened with the wind of the spirit, mouth open, not for uttering rain-water, but hosannas and hallelujahs".

But on the other hand, Wittgenstein can be said to dissolve certain sorts of anxieties about a religious worldview and steer a path away from the supposition that a religious person needs first to get the philosophical underpinning of his faith right before he or she can get on and practice that particular faith.

From the supposition of, we see that (2.36).

It follows trivially from the supposition that all practical principles have this form that whenever one agent has reason to promote a state of affairs that any agent who can promote N will have reason to do so.

On the whole, these arguments either allege that the notion of a created thing itself entails that what is created has a temporal beginning or point to alleged paradoxes stemming from the supposition of an infinite past.

Nevertheless it follows from the supposition that God is in time that there are segments of his life which together constitute a part of God's life that are presently inaccessible to him except by memory.

In the other, two unequal circles are constructed about a common centre, and from the supposition that the larger circle is composed of points, part of an angle is shown to be equal to the whole, in violation of Euclid's axiom V. William of Ockham (c.