Sentences with phrase «accepted suppositions»

Midgley, a retired philosophy professor from Newcastle, has published many provocative and insightful books in the past 15 years, combating various streams of uncritically accepted suppositions in science, ethics, philosophy and modern culture as well.

However, most did not accept this supposition.

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Lacking scientific judgment, the press and policy makers tend to accept the warnings of popularizers, thereby ignoring the pseudo-science that undergirds their suppositions.

In this instance, the Sorbonne Faculty «accepted and approved» scientific knowledge, even knowledge contrary to Scripture, for it was but «philosophical supposition.»

«While I wished to think thus, that everything was false, it necessarily had to be true that I, who was thinking this, was something; and, observing that this truth — I think, therefore I am — was so firm and so sure that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were incapable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept with a scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking.»

Much of my evangelical past was fruitlessly and painfully spent living out the supposition that faith is somehow a «work» — that once you «accept Christ,» you have to strive to Do All the Right Things to please him.

If we accept the ridiculous AGW supposition of adding of radiative quantities, by interval 01 the object has lost all energy.

The supposition that if the Plaintiff knows the name of one proprietor he can make him tell the names of all the others, but that, not knowing one name, he can not get the information from the printer and publisher, who is the agent of the proprietors, and is put forth to stand between them and the public, is one that does not commend itself to one's common sense, and is not to be accepted without absolute necessity...