Sentence examples for supposition I from inspiring English sources
Things seen as actual are necessary by supposition (i. e., with respect to God's knowledge and providence), but many of them are contingent with respect to their proximate causes (Sent. I.38.1.5, Summa contra gentiles I.67, Summa theologiae I, 14.13, De veritate 2.12).
But the detailed logical discussion starts right away with the concept of suppositio (supposition), i.e., from the capacity of substantive terms to stand for something in a propositional context.
In particular, he restores the notion of simple supposition — i.e., the reference of a term to the concept to which it is subordinated, when it signifies an extra-mental thing — which had been criticized and rejected by Buridan.
Burley's solution is the same as in his first version of the theory: in a true, affirmative statement, the significata of the subject and predicate are different, but the things for which they stand in personal supposition (i.e., the individual substance or substances) are the same (EP, prooem., fol. 18va; ch. de relatione, fol. 37ra; EPh, prol., fol. 66ra-b).
Much is supposition: "I believe that Dad and I saw 'Blow-Up' together".
First, we verify statement (ii) under the supposition that (i) is true.
I can really only go on supposition, but I do tend to assume that the life of the super-beautiful movie star contains less in the way of futility and failure as those of we shabby mortals.
That is supposition, and I never answer any questions that are supposition.
Does awareness of that fact commit me to prescribing, on the counter-factual supposition that I am Napoleon, that Napoleon be victorious?
The supposition -- I think it was Saint Augustine that various folks on the right wing have been referencing recently -- is that from the earliest days the Churches of Europe and all their members had every right to defend themselves against murderous infidels: to torture them during the Inquisition; to kill them during various Crusades, etc; to bomb them nowadays -- to at least waterboard them.
I know this is based on some pretty sneaky psychological suppositions, but I don't see how else to account for the use only against a good movie of arguments that could be used against almost all movies.
