Sentence examples for theory presupposes from inspiring English sources

Of course, this theory presupposes that Hillary stands the best chance of defeating Trump in November, which is something that Bernie's campaign bitterly contests.

(1) In the first place, the whole theory presupposes a point-to-point correspondence between matter and mind.

Millikan's theory presupposes innate learning mechanisms that are tuned to identify substances of different sorts in accord with certain principles.

However, as will be shown in the next section, there are natural senses in which probability theory presupposes and extends classical logic.

Thus Wiener's theory is a kind of materialism grounded in the laws of physics; while Floridi's theory presupposes a Spinozian, perhaps even a Platonic, metaphysics (Floridi 2006).

If a consequentialist theory presupposes an account of fairness, and simply stipulates that fairness is to be promoted, then this consequentialist theory is not explaining fairness.

Conversely, if the philosophical moral psychology in question is found to be empirically inadequate, the result is revisionary, compelling alteration, or even rejection, of those elements of the philosophical theory presupposing the problematic moral psychology.

From the pragmatic perspective, the coherence theory presupposed and required a metaphysical conception of the world as forming parts of the absolute mind so that inconsistent and incoherent events were excluded.

Not only does the idea of a comprehensive theory presuppose that there is one preferred mode of critical explanation, it also presupposes that there is one preferred goal of social criticism, a socialist society that fulfills the norm of human emancipation.

Even more strikingly, Hempel (1988a, 1988b) observed that the application of scientific theories presupposes the absence of factors that might affect the internal principles of the theory, which goes beyond the content of the theory itself.

Even though Laudan's account of progress allows Kuhn-losses, it can be argued that the comparison of the problem-solving capacity of two rival theories presupposes some kind of correlation or translation between the statements of these theories (Pearce 1987).