Sentence examples for on suppositions from inspiring English sources

Admittedly, Buridan explicitly restricts appellation to appellative terms, that is, "every term connoting something other than what it supposits for" (Summulae de Dialiectica: Treatise on Suppositions, tr. Klima, p. 291), and it "appellates that which it connotes as pertaining to that which it supposits for".

He said the case "is based on suppositions — they have no facts".

Again, we're positing based on suppositions.

Instead, they rely on suppositions and stereotypes that don't match the underlying data on startup success.

Where many ancient and modern ideals of politics were based on suppositions about the nature of reality or of human beings, contemporary political philosophies generally operate without supposing that there are any universal or eternal truths.

The second point, Bodin's relationship to the "politiques," is based on suppositions which have become nearly a tradition in Bodin scholarship, and has been perpetuated and reinforced by generation after generation of historians.

Ockham took this as a statement of a natural right belonging to each "free" community, i.e. one not already under government, to establish its own law and its own government.[96] This right exists by natural law in the third sense (§6.1 above), i.e. "on supposition", namely on the supposition that the community needs law and government.

This strategy, she adds, is based on supposition, not research.

Medicine should be based on evidence and not just on supposition.

The earlier estimates had been based on supposition, as it turned out.

Most statements about terrorism – on both sides of the debate – are based on supposition.