Sentence examples for premises of sciences from inspiring English sources

Aristotle's account of knowledge of the indemonstrable first premises of sciences is found in Posterior Analytics II.19, long regarded as a difficult text to interpret.

For all the horrors that the twentieth century has witnessed, such starkness now seems naïve; the materialist premises of science have grown somehow airy, so that physicists speak of finding "the God particle," and the electronic texture of popular culture unweights misery, spliced as it is among the television commercials.

There is nothing about this case that changes that basic premise of science.

Carruth fulfills the basic premise of science-fiction, to tether the impossible to rational explanations — but the impossible results that he seeks to explain are of the sort that are commonly taken to be religious.

One of the premises of social sciences is that society is not a system strictly commanded by constant universal laws.

Such are the premises of many science-fiction novels and most sciencefiction films.

In the second part of this essay, Crescas critiques fourteen of the premises of Aristotelian science.

In the introduction of the second part of the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides summarizes twenty-five premises of Aristotelian science (and one more that Maimonides attributes to the philosopher: the eternity of the world).

The starting point is the establishment of an urban development programme on the premises of the science city, which makes it possible 'to develop an area as a single project, actively, quickly, and with a clear goal focus, and to impose the same obligations on owners and local authorities' (SenStadt 2007: 5, translated).

The most striking element of this book may be Gaddis's sharp attack on some of the premises of the social sciences.

The meta-premise of all science fiction is that nothing can be taken for granted.