Sentence examples for suppose it true from inspiring English sources

In addition, there is a general debate within the philosophy of science as to the soundness of inferences to the best explanation: does an explanation's being the best available give any additional reason (over and above its ability to account for the phenomena within its domain) to suppose it true?

Hence, let us suppose it true.

Medieval impetus physics is false (though of course it might not have been) and thus it is irrational to suppose it true.

While at Eton, Ayer had read essays by Bertrand Russell (1872 1970), one of which, "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928), proposed a "wildly paradoxical and subversive" doctrine that Ayer would adopt as a lifelong philosophical motto: "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true".

Suppose that we judge hypothesis h to provide the best explanation (supposing it true) of empirical or already accepted facts e.

The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" (A1928, 11).

Suppose it's true, as the survey suggests but cannot prove, that marriage makes most people happier.

What was said on Monday, and was filtered out [to the media], I suppose it's true.

"But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got".

I suppose it's true that you're "wasting" five or six ounces of a product that costs $5 a jar and is delicious on toast.

But I suppose it's true that most of my favourite love stories are rather savage, ending in devastation, death, or, more frequently now, divorce.