Sentence examples for the common supposition from inspiring English sources

This gloss of the common supposition is intended to be neutral on the controversy between judgmentalists, who hold that emotions essentially involve beliefs or judgments, and their opponents.

His ideas were contrary to the common supposition that plants were usually self-fertilising, and so every summer Darwin investigated the contribution of insect pollination to the cross-pollination of flowers.

The common supposition was that the name derived from a creature of a man with the head of an ox, a figure of which served as the barge's figurehead.

The personal and common supposition is twofold.

The first principle was a common supposition in Bayle's day, and so obviously caused no controversy.

A common supposition among the financially naive is that you should take out a mortgage, whether you need one or not, because the tax deduction for the interest will leave you better off.

The first division is into suppositio communis (common supposition) and suppositio discreta (discrete supposition)—e.g., the terms homo (man) and Sortes (Socrates) respectively.

Common supposition is divided into 'determinate supposition', in which one refers to everything falling under the term's signification disjunctively, as in 'some man runs' = 'this man or that man or the other man... runs', and 'confused supposition', in which the term refers to everything falling under its signification, but not disjunctively.

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

If the term stands for many singulars considered separately or for some (that is, at least one) determinate individual named by the common term itself, the supposition is personalis distincta (or determinate, as Wyclif calls it in the final section of the chapter 12), as it occurs in 'these (men) are'istisuntsunt').

The common disease-common variant hypothesis has been one of the overarching suppositions driving many of the breast cancer association studies [ 2, 3].