Sentence examples for that the supposition from inspiring English sources

Laycock argues that the supposition that the reference of mass expressions is to mereological sums, and that sums are particulars, leads to a contradiction.

Again, since the supposition leads to a violation of the PSR, Leibniz maintains that the supposition itself must be rejected as chimerical or confused.

However, Russell was aware already at the time of POM that the supposition there is always a class, understood as an individual entity, as the extension of every propositional function, leads to certain logical paradoxes.

One problem with Guthrie's view of Parmenides is that the supposition that Parmenides' strict monism was developed as a critical reductio of Milesian material monism sits uncomfortably with the notion that he actually embraced this wildly counter-intuitive metaphysical position.

Like William of Sherwood, Peter of Spain, and Burley, and against Ockham and his followers, Wyclif affirms that the supposition is simple if the term stands for an extra-mental universal only, as it occurs in 'Man can be predicated of every man', and 'Man is a species'.

(Tarski's remark that the supposition that all objects have names in the language can never be realized can be justified, for example, by observing that there are non-denumerably many sets of natural numbers, but in the languages he considers there are only denumerably many constants).

That decision followed a string of high-profile exits that cemented the supposition that Social Capital, as we've known it, was over.

That leads to the supposition that an explosive was planted by a perpetrator who was able to gain "airside" access either to the aircraft or the baggage-handling system.

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.

If Supp is correct, that one believes "If A, B" to the extent that one thinks it probable that B on the supposition that A, then this is not equivalent to believing some proposition to be probably true.

Leibniz thus concludes that since the supposition of absolute space leads to a violation of the PII, the supposition itself must be rejected.