Sentence examples for knowledge of the premises from inspiring English sources

Aristotle clearly thinks that science is knowledge of causes and that in a demonstration, knowledge of the premises is what brings about knowledge of the conclusion.

The accounts given of each of these employ an extremely causalistic idiom, typical questions being 'what causes a perceptual experience?'whathareare the distinguishing causal factors of true and false perceptual experiences?'underder what conditions does knowledge of the premises of an argument cause knowledge of the conclusion?', etc.

Another auxiliary causal factor is that the inferrer must either not yet already know the conclusion or else must have a particular desire to infer (i.e. given, knowledge of the premises, the inference would normally take place mechanically, but if the conclusion is already known e.g. perceptually, then the inferrer has to have a special wish to re-establish it inferentially).

However, the meditator does not (yet) have Knowledge of those premises, nor of their conclusions.

Aristotle's account of knowledge of the indemonstrable first premises of sciences is found in Posterior Analytics II.19, long regarded as a difficult text to interpret.

Richard Jeffrey (1969) noted that Hempel's conception harmonizes well with Aristotle's definition of (what he called) unqualified scientific knowledge, "[where] the premises of demonstrated knowledge must be true, primary, immediate, better known than and prior to the conclusion, which is further related to them as effect to cause" (Posterior Analytics 1.71 2).

Indeed, a recent study provides evidence that these other kinds of information e.g., knowledge of the structure of premise pair presentation acquired through training may also facilitate new hierarchy learning (Kumaran, In Press).

Again and again, after starting from an ancient premise of radical difference between humans and other creatures, scientists have discovered profound similarities among us all, profound enough to undermine the initial arrogance and the false self-knowledge of that premise.

A practical knower is not someone who merely has knowledge of general premises; he must also have knowledge of particulars, and he must actually draw the conclusion of the syllogism.

Second, he says that in order for knowledge of immediate premises to be possible, we must have a kind of knowledge of them without having learned it, but this knowledge must not be as "precise" as the knowledge that a possessor of science must have.

The counter-terrorism bill's explanatory notes said the changes would allow the Australian Federal Police (AFP) "to conduct searches of a warrant premises without the occupier's knowledge and without notifying the occupier of the premises at the time the warrant is executed".