I place my hopes in two suppositions, one low and one high.
Two suppositions may explain that quality of life is less or not at all responsive after treatment.
Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock's unauthorized, gossipy account of the life and times of Susan Sontag is built around two reductive suppositions: that the real source of their subject's cultural influence is her keen insight into "the machinery of self-promotion which she could have patented," and that she rules over the house of intellect like a highbrow Lucrezia Borgia, by fear and intimidation.
How much mercy in the Mercy Street hospital In Episode Five, our suppositions are confirmed: "The route they use to bring the wounded men up from the barges, I've heard them call it Mercy Street because it leads them here, where they might be saved".
The version of the Likelihood Ratio Convergence Theorem I'll present below does, however, draw on one substantive supposition, although a rather weak one.
Thus one and the same term could have material supposition when it referred to the actual word, as in "'man' has three letters," or simple supposition when it referred to the form signified, as in "Man is a species of animal," or personal supposition when it referred to individuals, as in "Some man is running".
Ockham's three main kinds of supposition were not original, and were in fact fairly standard among medieval logicians, although his way of defining them reflects peculiarities of his own theory of signification.
Most logicians went on to distinguish three kinds of proper supposition: personal, where a term stands for what it signifies (e.g., 'Socrates' in 'Socrates is a man'); material, where it stands for itself (e.g., 'man' in 'Man has three letters'); and simple, where it stands for a common nature or concept (e.g., 'man' in 'Man is a species').
