Sentence examples for simple supposition that from inspiring English sources

In November 1854, while talking about the problem to Rebmann, "at one and the same moment, the problem flashed on both of us solved by the simple supposition that where geographical hypothesis had hitherto supposed an enormous mountain-land, we must now look for an enormous valley and an inland sea".

Wyclif takes a resolutely realist stand, as his formulation and division of supposition (where simple supposition is described as that possessed by a term in relation to a universal outside the intellect and personal supposition as that possessed by a term in relation to one or more individual) make evident.

John Buridan (tr. Klima, sec 4.3.2, p. 253) famously eliminated simple supposition altogether, for this very reason, namely, that universals are words of a mental language, so terms suppositing for them are suppositing for a kind of linguistic item, and so such a case should be included under material supposition.

They had changed the meaning of the term, he said, by claiming that a written or spoken term had simple supposition if it was used to refer to a concept in the human mind.

Natural supposition was the term's natural or nomic extension, accidental supposition that range of things it supposited for in a particular proposition.

This research strategy is based on the supposition that it is easier to reliably identify the neural correlates of simple behavioural states and traits than the complex phenotypes typical of most mental disorders.

Spade p. 82),[16] William of Ockham appears to characterize simple supposition quite differently: "Simple supposition occurs when a term supposits for an intention of the soul and is not functioning significatively" (tr. Loux p. 190).[17] But in fact, the difference between them is not in their theories of supposition, but rather of signification.

Local compressibilities reinforce the supposition that adsorbate restructuring is the origin of the ordering hysteresis.

Everything about Reading boys Morning Runner refutes the supposition that men have trouble expressing emotion.

He said it was a "reasonable supposition" that his role would be related to the economy.

This observation leads to the supposition that another more reduced species is formed from CO2.