Sentence examples for premises asserted from inspiring English sources

Many premises asserted by the experts are likely to be esoteric and therefore difficult if not impossible for the layperson to assess.

The third premise, asserted, implied, and insinuated, was that meaningful —or potential—linkage existed between Saddam’s WMD regime and al-Qaeda.

For the premise asserts that the graph of the function g: Δ → R defined by g = aε has both slope a and slope b: the uniqueness condition in the principle of microaffineness then gives a = b.

Crummell thus offers what may be called a Common Sympathies Premise, asserting that black political sympathies "have the same being and nature" as those in any other group ("New York Convention Address," 202).

A second theme, which Ashworth says was the most usual thing to say, is also found in Buridan: additional inferences, such as contraposition, become valid when supplemented by an additional premise asserting that the terms in question are non-empty.

Such inferences as "This divine essence is the Father, this divine essence is the Son, therefore the Father is the Son" seem to have true premises which assert an identity between singular things, yet the conclusion is unacceptable.

The balance of military to historical to whimsical premises, Kotaku asserts, is about the same in Iran's recent game catalog as in any American one.

Both the truth-values of the asserted premises and the strength of evidential support they confer on the conclusions will be difficult for the layperson to assess.

As contemporary philosophers, we might wonder whether Berkeley has anything to say to a materialist who denies this representationalist premise and asserts instead that we ordinarily directly/immediately perceive material objects themselves.

Hitchcock 2006 provides a precise account of this conception, defining an argument as "a claim-reason complex" consisting of (i) an act of concluding, (ii) one or more acts of premising (which assert propositions in favour of the conclusion), and (iii) a stated or implicit inference word that indicates that the conclusion follows from the premises.

It is the fact that this argument does not contain a premise explicitly asserting that the five skandhas (classes of psychophysical element) are exhaustive of the constituents of persons, plus the fact that these are all said to be empirically observable, that leads some to claim that the Buddha did not intend to deny the existence of a self tout court.