Sentence examples for supposition if from inspiring English sources

A term is in simple equal supposition if it stands for the common nature that it directly signifies, as it occurs in 'man is a species'.

They had changed the meaning of the term, he said, by claiming that a written or spoken term had simple supposition if it was used to refer to a concept in the human mind.

(2) Both the subject and predicate of a universal negative proposition have confused distributive supposition, if they are common terms, as it occurs in 'no man is a stone'.

The supposition in this case is that if there are off-targets for the two dsRNAs, they will be different.

Such a practical guide is inspiring rather than alarming and is based on the supposition that if we all do something things will get better!

"The problem with that view is the supposition that if the peace deal is off, the FARC can be wiped out militarily, and that, I think, is a serious misjudgment of the reality".

Introduced by Tom Sharpe in my edition, he writes: "In Saki's world, it is the intelligent animal who triumphs, and there is always the supposition that, if humans behaved like animals, the world would certainly order its way more sensibly … It is only necessary to imagine what would have happened to Mowgli had Saki had a hand in The Jungle Book to see how realistic he was".

That is associated with the supposition that, if the shared interest generates a group right, the right-holding group must also be understood as an irreducible moral entity.

Prior endorsed Aristotle's argument, in ch. 9 of De Interpretatione, for believing in such events: if the future were determined, 'there would be no need to deliberate or take trouble, on the supposition that if we should adopt a certain course, a certain result would follow, while, if we did not, the result would not follow'.

It is my supposition that if more people were to be able to hear the 3rd Party candidates debate alongside the others the American mind would listen and open.

We want to trust in universal competence, the supposition that if a person is good at one thing then she will be good at another thing and vice versa.