Sentence examples for without the supposition from inspiring English sources

There can be no human dignity, no inviolable person, no end in herself, without the supposition of the human as sacred, and therefore as a godly creation.

It is also related to the critical theories of writers such as Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and F.R. Leavis, whose criticism would make little or no sense without the supposition that works of art have the power to correct and corrupt our emotions.

If the facts can be accounted for without difficulty on the supposition of M but not, without great implausibility, on the assumption of ~M, then they provide significant evidence in favor of M. On this reading, Butler is tacitly assuming that the prior probability of M is not so low as to overcome the cumulative force of the evidence in its favor.

While controversy has swirled around Freud's rejection of the seduction hypothesis, without the scandalous supposition of infantile sexuality there would be no psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious.

"George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition 'that morality can be maintained without religion.' " The candidates have been more overt about their religious faith this year than in any other presidential campaign in memory.

He will then be like a scientist who puts forward a hypothesis and deduces its consequences without mistake only to find that experience fails to confirm the supposition on which he is working.

Both versions of dependence coherentism, then, rest on the supposition that it is possible to have justification for a proposition without actually believing that proposition.

To the Editor: The supposition of Profs.

It also showed the supposition that people hold that cats are incapable of taking care of themselves without outside intervention, which struck him as odd.

The supposition then was that the movie would lionize Mr. Obama.

"And the supposition on the part of management almost always is that the person without kids is more able -- and it's true -- to do that than a parent.