Sentence examples for mere supposition from inspiring English sources

This is, of course, mere supposition.

That this was the case wasn't mere supposition.

The station was far away, and the mere supposition that we were going there made me drowsy.

However, the whole point of having a record is to allow a vigorous public debate based on the nominee's actual views rather than on mere supposition and innuendo.

(Note that Goldman's notion of s-imagination is to be distinguished from Peacocke's notion of the same name (see section 5.6 below).) The distinction between mere supposition and vivid imagination is often invoked in discussions of imaginative engagement.

Roughly, mere supposition is what is involved in simple cases of hypothetical reasoning, whereas vivid imagination is what is involved in aesthetic participation, engaged pretense, or absorbing games of make-believe.

It is necessary to clearly indicate that these are mere suppositions of the Authors that are not based on any new results.

Simple supposition is harder to characterize generally.

To which the response is that it is mere arbitrary supposition to believe that humans are that exceptional.

Because professors are in the business of critical inquiry, one might think that they are less reliant on "mere" conventional wisdom, but this supposition is false.

If that supposition were to fail, then the mere occurrence of the experimental conditions would count as very strong evidence for or against hypotheses — a highly implausible effect.