Sentences with phrase «common supposition»

The common supposition is that when ordinary people have different views from those of experts that the differences stem from knowledge gaps: If people knew more, the argument goes, they would agree with the experts.

, Whitehead and Laszlo arrive at a common supposition, namely that the res verae are respectively actual occasions or actual systems.

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(29) What Protestant liberalism, Bultmannianism and liberation theology all have in common is the supposition that the modem context determines how we should or how we can read the biblical narrative.

These, of course, are common - sense suppositions about what the continuity of human life consists in.

Such a supposition is foreign neither to common sense nor to philosophy.

All sharing a common delusion, without a shred of experimental evidence to back up their ridiculous suppositions.

In the spirit of evidence - based policy - making, it's preferable not to ground reform efforts in assertions, suppositions, anecdotes, or «common sense facts» which have not been substantiated.

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...