Sentence examples for supposition for from inspiring English sources

Thus, D's laws are stable under some counterfactual supposition for which fundamental physics is unstable.

For those who accepted simple supposition as supposition for a common nature, "Man is a species" had a singular subject.

This obviously implies that an affirmative proposition is true if and only if its extremes have personal supposition for the same thing or things.

For example, 'Sortes est homo'Socratestes is a man') is true if and only if 'homo' in this context has personal supposition for Socrates, that is, if the abstract form of humanity (humanitas) is present in Socrates.

Indeed, any term whatsoever could be taken as having material supposition for itself or its equiforms, or as having personal supposition, and in early sixteenth-century Parisian logic texts it was normal to remark that all singular terms are common, and all common terms are singular when taken in these different ways.

Clearly, from the above supposition for the implication in (3.2) and Definition 4, the right-hand side of (3.8) tends to zero ((nrightarrowinfty)). Subsequently, we obtain mathrm{stat}_{D bar{N})}lim_{nrightarrowinfty} biglVert T_{n} bigl(f_{j}(s,t);x,ybigr -f_{j}(x,ybigr -f_{j _{C_{B} xathcal{D})}=0quad (j=0,y,2,3).

Note, however, that for Ockham, Burleigh and others, a term with determinate supposition supposits for everything of which it can be truly predicated.

Therefore it supposits [A] indefinitely and [B] uncertainly; therefore indeterminately" (pp. 115 6).[23] But this is simply a matter of terminology, he replies — determinate supposition means suppositing for one, not for many, but for no particular one, for that would constitute discrete supposition.

Arguments for free will are based on the subjective experience of freedom, on sentiments of guilt, on revealed religion, and on the universal supposition of responsibility for personal actions that underlies the concepts of law, reward, punishment, and incentive (for additional discussion of free will and determinism, see moral responsibility, problem of).

Common suppositions for this sudden change are family pressure and the wish to avoid being raped in retaliation for dressing secularly.

As it turns out neither of the suppositions for Moskovitz's decision to leave were right.