Sentence examples for premises relative from inspiring English sources

In a symposium on the given with Lewis (1952a) and Reichenbach (1952), Goodman (1952) argued that the premises relative to which other statements are credible or probable just have to be initially credible on their own to some degree, not certain.

If causal closure is to figure in the arguments for anomalism or monism, it can do so only as a primitive assumption relative to these other premises.

If privatization in Pennsylvania yielded a different set of geographic regulations, where distances varied by outlet types (e.g., off-premise outlets relative to bars) and the variety of sensitive facilities changed (e.g., other types of facilities were added to the list of protected sites), the model easily accommodates these modifications.

The premise — embarrassing relatives who just won't go away — is rich with possibilities, and these men make the Clampetts of "The Beverly Hillbillies" look like the Bloomsbury set.

But the news we get of Yasmin's family — their overcrowded premises and their relative poverty — suggests that she moves in a world with different priorities, different narratives.

A central premise in the relative differentiation architecture is that users with an absolute QoS requirement can dynamically search for a class, which provides the desired QoS level.

Local biomonitoring was conducted under the premise that the relative importance of population exposures and sources can vary according to cultural, behavioral, and demographic characteristics of an area.

Local biomonitoring was conducted under the premise that the relative importance of population exposures and their sources may vary according to cultural, behavioral, and built environment characteristics of an area.

The probability of a proposition is always relative to premises or data, and the supposition that probability is always relative to something else that is itself only probable means that probabilities can never get off the ground and so is incompatible with the justifiable assignment of any probability at all.

A purely logical approach to argument won't capture this requirement because arguments of the same valid form, but with different contents, can be one epistemically serious and the other not, depending on whether the premises are epistemically acceptable relative to the conclusion.

Yes, Isabella, the eldest of a combined step-family of 21 children, spent some of her adolescence living in the grandstand on Epsom race-course, but it was by no means unusual for large families of this period to disperse their offspring among sundry relatives and business premises, and it was a temporary arrangement, rather than the fairytale-like banishment it becomes in some accounts.