Sentence examples for supposition as from inspiring English sources

In the De suppositionibus and De puritate the same idea is expressed by the definition of the formal supposition as the supposition that a term has when it supposits for its significatum or for the singular objects that instantiate it.

These arguments are valid but are also woolly, under-nuanced and use supposition as evidence.

The earlier estimates had been based on supposition, as it turned out.

*** Looked at one way, this colloquy is an occasion for national shame, albeit with a whiff of the risible: here is our country's leader, the champion-in-chief of educational standards, blandly equating natural science and supernatural supposition as "different schools of thought".

The massive and relatively sudden explosion of great literary creativity during Shakespeare's lifetime supports this supposition, as does the appearance of works such as Richard Mulcaster's The First Part of the Elementarie (1582), which devotes itself, in part, to the defense of English as a literary tongue.

The dynamics of switching seem to support this supposition as much longer relaxation times are observed.

They could not have meaningful evidence that the end was very near; they had only suppositions, as the rest of us did.

Under the same suppositions as in Proposition  2.1, there exists a strictly increasing convex continuous function γ : [ 0, ∞ ) → [ 0, ∞ ) with γ ( 0 ) = 0 depending only on the diameter of C such that γ ( ∥ ∑ i = 1 n λ i x i − T ( ∑ i = 1 n λ i x i ) ∥ ) ≤ max 1 ≤ i ≤ n ( ∥ x i − T x i ∥ ).

I have my suppositions as to why this is, of course.

How long can we continue on our collective apathetic pace, equating the sound bites that meet with our suppositions as fact, while dismissing those that fail to correspond as nothing more than hyperbolic propaganda?

On the other hand, the interviewers might have had similar pre-suppositions as the participants, something which may sometimes inhibit making the implicit more explicit.