Sentence examples for rather than supposing from inspiring English sources

Rather than supposing that all consumption choices can be ranked by how much they promote an agent's happiness, economists focused on the ranking itself.

Rather than supposing that functions are determined by natural selection across multiple generations, many philosophers contend that it is more plausible that the functions that underlie mental representations are acquired through cognitive development.

This is to represent the pleasure that arises here as directed at some state of affairs of which it is cognisant, rather than supposing simply that the thought of someone's misfortune causes a feeling of pleasure.

However, in a report prepared for one of these 21st century skill projects, Scardamalia et al. ([2012]) argued that in a project with such forward-looking aspirations the traditional working-backward-from-goals approach ought to be augmented by provisions for the discovery of new needed competencies, rather than supposing that these can all be identified in advance.

Therefore we can use this causal time order to speculate that where associations are seen, these social influences help form attitudes and behaviors, rather than supposing that breast cancer-specific actions and opinions change a woman's family or work status.

"The Plautine in Plautus" consists in pervasive qualities rather than supposed innovations of plot or technique.

The flow dimension parameter n, derived from the Generalized Radial Flow model, is a valuable tool to investigate the actual flow regimes that really occur during a pumping test rather than suppose them to be radial, as postulated by the Theis-derived models.

Maybe it's just me being critical of the media, but I'm more inclined to believe what I see, rather than supposed quotes from unnamed students in some newspaper.

Rather than suppose that there are multiple attention resources distinguished by reliance on a particular sensory domain (Wickens, 2002), it is possible to suppose that some other difference between the two tasks enabled their simultaneous completion.

Likewise, the eukaryotic Ras superfamily was recently found to have homologues in Bacteria and Archaea; rather than suppose two independent prokaryotic origins followed by fusion between two such prokaryotes [ 99] one could assume their previous occurrence in the protoeukaryotic LUCA.

The way of communicating DCPGs should be based on extended cognition [42] mechanisms that are compliant with our cognitive characteristics and needs rather than (wrongly) supposing that people have an unlimited amount of cognitive ability.