Sentence examples for without presupposing from inspiring English sources

The problem is that you can't defend first principles without presupposing them — that is what makes them "first" principles.

But you can't get angry with someone for not existing without presupposing that they exist: a Book Against God requires a God to be against.

Association stream mining is an appealing field which models complex environments online by finding relationships among the attributes without presupposing any a priori structure.

Some philosophers maintain that a correspondence theory of truth can be developed and defended without presupposing any absurd Archimedean point from which correspondences are instituted or detected.

There are two views on whether the theory simply represents a descriptive means to model behaviour without presupposing that agents actually reason in accordance with the theory or whether instead it actually describes the decision rules manifested by rational agency.

For further exploration are the philosophical implications of finding oneself unable to understand or explain a particular domain of thought "from outside" it, without presupposing competence and commitment within it.

"A good way to think about sexual ethics is to do so without, say, presupposing the existence of God," Ms. Radhakrishnan said.

In virtue of their distinctive appeal to evolution, they seem to do this without inadvertently presupposing content or aboutness.

The signal achievement of both Harold and Kumar films is that they make race incidental without taking racism lightly; they presuppose an enlightened audience.

It begins with a declaration of rights, the sixteenth article of which declares that 'no private property ought to be taken or applied to public use without just compensation.' This clearly presupposes that private property cannot be taken for private use.

No "ought," he pointed out, followed from an "is"—without the help of another (presupposed) "ought".