Sentence examples for supposed idea from inspiring English sources

Hume famously argues that, in order to clarify any idea, "we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived" (EHU, 22).

The supposed idea is to bring Europe into harmonization, by smashing up the current system and gluing it all back together in a different shape.

In this regard, consider Hume's assertion that, if we are unsure about the meaning of a word, "we need but enquire, from what impression is that supposed idea derived?" (Hume [1748] 1975, 22), and his recommendation that we abandon words that lack such derivations.

It's an office designed for the interactive, serendipitous manner in which creative professionals work today, in a supposed ideas economy where corner offices and in-boxes feel like relics.

These rules are remarkable and fly in the face of the BoP's supposed ideas on the positive aspects of communication between prisoners and their community, family members and friends.

There are things you're supposed to say, ideas that you're supposed to agree with; fashion that you're supposed to wear in order to show that you belong to the tribe.

His version of the ontological argument, his proof from the supposed innate idea of God, his proof from the need for an eternal conscious being,[19] and his proof from the need for continuing creation, all found supporters in the later seventeenth century, though the first two were generally held to be unlikely to convince anyone.

I suppose every idea is new to everybody at some point.

"I suppose the idea that we're sort of exposing ourselves, you do that anyway onstage.

"I suppose the idea of losing my mum is my biggest fear ever," she says.

I suppose the idea of being able to avoid being touched by existence doesn't really hit home for me.