Sentence examples for suppositional from inspiring English sources

But the result of supposing an item presupposes that the information in question is indeed part of the suppositional scenario created by the supposition of the said item.

In §3 we examine what is called the suppositional theory: that conditional judgements essentially involve suppositions.

"To label books like mine 'autobiographical' or 'confessional'", he once told the French writer Alain Finkielkraut, "is not only to falsify their suppositional nature but, if I may say so, to slight whatever artfulness leads some readers to think that they must be autobiographical".

Lacking hard evidence for many of the causal chains he envisions, Keys offers a series of suppositional flow charts, each beginning with the presumed supereruption in 535.

A related distinction is made by Alvin Goldman (2006) between suppositional imagination (s-imagination) on the one hand, and enactment imagination (e-imagination) on the other.

Within the epistemic project it is s herself who supposes that q is false i.e., who has a suppositional doubt about q (where s's suppositional doubt about q is compatible with s's actually having justification for believing q or s's being entitled to believe q).

Another place in which singular terms were used was suppositional descent, as when one infers from "Every man is running" that Socrates is running or Plato is running or Cicero is running, or that this man is running, and that man is running.

Hook and the suppositional theorist (call her Supp) come spectacularly apart when p ~A) is high and p(A&B) is much smaller than p(A&~B).

These are the ways of tarka, "hypothetical" or "suppositional reasoning".

Now there is much in common between the restrictor-view of conditionals and the suppositional view.

A suppositional theory was advanced by J. L. Mackie (1973, chapter 4).