Sentence examples for only premises from inspiring English sources

Thus, the specific topoi provide not only premises but complete argumentative patterns.

If there is any single lesson taught by the history of epistemology, it is that there are no successful arguments that have only premises about the contents of our ideas and which conclude with propositions about physical objects.

In his discussion of this argument Grosseteste focuses on premises formulated in terms of God's knowledge, but he clearly thinks that a range of arguments having the same form can be constructed, employing in their initial part not only premises about God's knowledge, but also premises formulated in terms of prophecy or even just past-tensed truths of the form "It was the case that A will be".

It is the only premises in Hadspen with a general liquor licence.

The June 2006 Agricultural Census data was matched to the point location data based on the county-parish-holding (CPH) number to select only premises with any cattle, sheep or pigs.

"That dream, in fact, had been the first and only premise of the Schwarzenegger campaign".

It also happens that Gibson's question was not only premised on nonsense but also profoundly unhelpful, because the only answers it could elicit would be both predictable and substance-free.

Though he generally considers only premise combinations which syllogize in their assertoric forms, he does sometimes extend this; similarly, he sometimes considers conclusions in addition to those which would follow from purely assertoric premises.

The difficulty now is not that Arcesilaus appears over-committed to Stoic epistemology, as he seemed to be on the Academic interpretation, since the present assumption is that he shared only premise [6], not their theories of perception, belief, cognition, action, virtue and happiness, etc.

"The only premise of the book was to just go out and listen".

The only premise of the study was that the subjects use suitable shoes.