Sentence examples for rather than postulated from inspiring English sources

That classes so defined have the feature of extensionality is thus derivable, rather than postulated.

Moreover, as in the case of apprehending value-modes, the functionality of a given value is to be discovered experientially; rather than, postulated a priori.

That reading would only have a chance of being correct if Wittgenstein had taken metaphysical possibility to coincide with physical possibility, and that is evidently not so.[8] His meaning seems rather to be just that the objects must be discovered rather than postulated or otherwise specified in advance of investigation (cf. AM, 11).

But there are known, rather than postulated, environmental calamities happening as you read this.

"I find it easier to give a friendly little push to some of the forms and hang my distributional horseshoes on the nail of Nome rather than postulate transoceanic land-bridges in other parts of the world," he wrote.

As more has become known of the many thousands of African plant species and their complex ecology, naming, classification, and mapping have also become more particular, stressing what was actually present rather than postulating about climatic potential.

It offers a rationale for nationalisation that doesn't centre on the questionable priority of increasing bank lending, and it deals seriously with the question of bank liabilities, rather than postulating a fantasy scenario of nationalisation on the cheap that involves punishing bank debtholders.

Russell claimed that rather than postulating entities in such a case, an irrational number should simply be defined as a class of rational numbers without a rational upper bound.

The Epicureans do not seem to have anticipated the full theory of evolution as we now know it and seem to have postulated a separate abiogenetic events for each species rather than postulating a single abiogenetic event coupled with the differentiation of species over time from a single (or small number of) originating parent organism(s).

Rather than postulating a fundamental division in processing between visual fields, for which there is little evidence, a more parsimonious explanation for the predominance of contralateral over topographic organization is the need to minimize the wiring costs associated with connections between areas.

Rather than postulating a single "best method" this view acknowledges that there are optimal methods for answering specific questions, and that a composite of all methods constitutes best scientific evidence (Fig. 2).