Mr. Bobbitt, the scholar who met with Mr. McCain over several days three months ago to talk about his recent work, "Terror and Consent," said he was surprised by the candidate's willingness to question his own suppositions.
"Guest" by name and nature, he observes a social milieu with all his Jamesian sensitivity, and often with the coolness of a satirist, but its psychological nuances are his own suppositions.
"People who care about American history, professionally and otherwise, will no doubt weigh in on the accuracy of its particulars and the validity of its interpretation; they will also, I hope, revisit some of their own suppositions in light of its unsparing and uncompromised imagining of the past," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
My own (indefensibly ageist) supposition that they must all be geriatric traditionalists abruptly ended when an undergraduate from Rome's Sapienza proclaimed to me her imperviousness to whether people choose to go about naked in public just as long as they do so in the apposite places.
Motivated by a sincere desire to explore our own pre-understanding, suppositions and assumptions, we adopted Drew's [ 23] suggestions for structuring pre-understanding in the following steps.
The temptation for listeners is to project their own feelings, or their suppositions about the performer's, on the music.
Rather than offering an explanation of this kind, Malebranche is content here simply to report on his own psychological response to the 'extravagant supposition' of a deceiving God, which fails to instill doubts in him about such simple truths.
I'm terrified of somebody suing me for something!" Although she's established herself as an electronic everythingist, a solo artist who writes and then sings and performs all her own music, that hasn't stopped the supposition that she's a singer-songwriter and Greenspan does all the techy production.
If they turn out to be true, readers will have to reckon on their own with the disjunction of biographical fact with biographical supposition.
