Sentence examples for kind of supposition from inspiring English sources

The music in these projects explores exactly that kind of supposition, making reasonable connections that seem far-flung in theory.

It's the kind of supposition that may strike viewers, here and in Britain, as frivolous, or just plain wrong, but it's a fine piece of mischief suggestive, wounding to Blair, and, as a fiction, emotionally gratifying in the way of le Carré's conspiracy plots.

It's the kind of supposition that may strike viewers, here and in Britain, as frivolous, or just plain wrong, but it's a fine piece of mischief — suggestive, wounding to Blair, and, as a fiction, emotionally gratifying in the way of le Carré's conspiracy plots.

Marsilius accepted the latter analysis as sound, despite the authority of the former.[8] Finally, in the definition of ampliation, Marsilius went back to logicians of the thirteenth century such as Peter of Spain, who had defined ampliation as an extension of supposition, whereas fourteenth-century logicians such as Albert of Saxony did not consider ampliation to be a kind of supposition.

When a number is added to a term of first intention (like 'man'), the presence of this numerical term modifies the kind of supposition from simple to personal; but one can refer to a universal only with a term with simple supposition.

In fact, (1) signification consisted in the relation of a linguistic sign to what it signifies apart from any propositional context; (2) a word capable of standing for something else or for itself in a proposition had first to have signification; (3) a term only had supposition in a propositional context; and (4) the kind of supposition a term had depended on its propositional context.

Ockham's three main kinds of supposition were not original, and were in fact fairly standard among medieval logicians, although his way of defining them reflects peculiarities of his own theory of signification.

Most logicians went on to distinguish three kinds of proper supposition: personal, where a term stands for what it signifies (e.g., 'Socrates' in 'Socrates is a man'); material, where it stands for itself (e.g., 'man' in 'Man has three letters'); and simple, where it stands for a common nature or concept (e.g., 'man' in 'Man is a species').

The first hour of "This Is Us" follows each of these stories through a series of next steps — Rebecca goes into labor; Kate joins a weight-loss support group; Randall, having finally located his birth father, confronts him; and Kevin turns his midlife moment into a full-blown career crisis — before twisting up another kind of response to the initial supposition about shared birthdays.

John Buridan (tr. Klima, sec 4.3.2, p. 253) famously eliminated simple supposition altogether, for this very reason, namely, that universals are words of a mental language, so terms suppositing for them are suppositing for a kind of linguistic item, and so such a case should be included under material supposition.

This definition, which is drawn from Burley's De suppositionibus (composed in 1302), sounds partially different from the standard definition of supposition, as it seems to somehow equate signification and supposition, since supposition is considered as a particular kind of signification.