Sentence examples for restricted supposition from inspiring English sources
Given the literal meaning of 'supponere' as "acting as subject", it is unsurprising that several authors, even as late as Vincent Ferrer in the 1370s, restricted supposition to subject terms, preferring to speak instead of copulation as the corresponding property of the predicate.
The tract on appellationes is very short: appellation is considered no more than a special case of restriction, i.e., the restricted supposition brought about by a present-tense verb.
For example, by qualifying 'man' with the adjective 'white', we restrict the supposition of 'man' in 'A white man is running' to white men; while a verb in the past tense ampliates the supposition of the subject to what were its supposita.
Peter of Spain notes that only general terms can be ampliated or restricted, and only terms having personal supposition.
And Darwin was right in his supposition that the agoutis and cavies are restricted ("endemic") to the western hemisphere.
A supposition also restricts one's claim to the case in which the antecedent is true.
"restricted composition".
To refute the above supposition while maintaining the relevance of the commandments, Crescas uses the first four chapters of Part Six to develop an uncompromising determinism that lives in harmony with human choice and a system of reward and punishment that are restricted to the realm of personal feelings and self-judgment.
