Nevertheless it surely may be urged that such affirmative answers are purely hypothetical, and that other suppositions have an equal right to consideration.
Only two suppositions seem to be open to us--Either each species of crocodile has been specially created, or it has arisen out of some pre-existing form by the operation of natural causes.
Suppositions and Conjectures towards forming an Hypothesis, for the Explanation of the Aurora Borealis[12].
I should as soon expect to catch Wolf tripping in Homer, as to find any such suppositions correct.
After reading several pages of notes, and consulting half a dozen books of reference, I made myself master of the suppositions of the learned on the subject.
You are right in saying that dreams are not to guide our conduct: but may it not be, that some of your nocturnal suppositions come close upon the truth?
There was for a few days a deal of talk in the clubs and exchanges on the subject, and many suppositions which were not all kindly ones.
They spoke of the squire's evident distress, but all Elizabeth's suppositions as to the cause fell distant from the truth.
All these suppositions were unreasonable: I could not for a moment admit them, and your two letters have entirely justified you.
All these suppositions charmed my enemies, and filled them with hopes which their leaders, better informed, did not partake.
We have been dealing hitherto with suppositions the materials of which are furnished by everyday experience, not with mere a priori assumptions.
And what can you say more, allowing all your suppositions and reasonings?
It is one of the suppositions here that the respondent affirms the predicate as necessary.
If it is not a fact, two suppositions respecting its origin are alone possible.
Now, on the assumption that possession was simple mania and nothing more, the following suppositions are the only possible ones.
Silence would imply either that we admitted the charge, or that we disregarded the censure; and each of these suppositions would probably be welcome to the enemies of our common cause, while both of them are, in fact, untrue.
Thus I went on, tormenting my mind with suppositions and conjectures without end, until at last I resolved to dispel my apparently inextricable tangle of mystery by taking a walk, as soon as I had finished my breakfast.
But such suppositions are the seemings only of postulates floating through the brains of Ignorance or Un-heed, who really postulate nothing at all.
Perhaps the suppositions we make seem to us of too great importance, and we are not willing enough to let them go, fearing to lose the thing itself if we lose our hold of the means by which we have first apprehended it.
Now of course all these suppositions are merely provisional, and must be dismissed unless seen to be mechanically possible; but for the present we are trying to see if our assumption will fit in with facts.
The preceding two alternative suppositions are based on the hypothesis of the reality of four-dimensional existence, and must be conceived to hold good only on that hypothesis.
I thought as I suppose an honest woman would think, if a gallant should entertain her with suppositions of cases, in which infidelity to her husband would be justifiable.
Assuming the unity of the races or species of men now existing, there are but three suppositions on which the diversity now seen can be accounted for:-- "1st.
The violent suppositions which it involves only remind one of the remark quoted from Pascal on a former page, that "unbelievers are the most credulous persons in the world.
We need only allude to the various suppositions respecting the origin of drift, and to the numerous modifications of the glacial theory.
But the moral philosopher will hardly deem any of these suppositions a satisfactory explanation of the facts before him.
To believe in a mind or power separate or opposite from God, is to be subject to any suppositions or beliefs formulated by that mind or negative thought.
I am far from advancing thesesuppositions as demonstrated truths.
So fall to ground those imagined and forced suppositions concerning the origin of the present execrable murder, which the Anonymous Writer in his printed pages [Pamphlet 10] has tried to insinuate into the dull heads of the crowd.
And this is quite right in law, because neither the Canon himself nor the said Francesca have confessed, much less been convicted of it; and because the suppositions brought on the other side are trivial and equivocal.
I am apt enough to think I have, in treating of this subject, made some suppositions that will look strange to some readers, and possibly they are so in themselves.
These suppositions the mind is very apt tacitly to make concerning its own ideas.
Suppositions that look strange are pardonable in our ignorance.
Now, take which of these suppositions you please, it is impossible to make personal identity to consist in anything but consciousness; or reach any further than that does.
The former of these suppositions necessarily implies that the colour is an effect of causation.
If any of these suppositions had been true, the affirmation that I saw my brother would have been erroneous; but whatever was matter of direct perception, namely the visual sensations, would have been real.
The real and only proof of the laws of motion, or of any other law of the universe, is experience; it is simply that no other suppositions explain or are consistent with the facts of universal nature.
But those suppositions are false; and what position does art retain after this acknowledgment?
A philosophy can serve either to satisfy those needs or to set them aside; for they are acquired, temporally limited needs, which are based upon suppositions contradictory to those of science.
I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppositions about my feeling," said Dorothea, in the same tone.
If Will Ladislaw could have overheard some of the talk at Freshitt that morning, he would have felt all his suppositions confirmed as to the readiness of certain people to sneer at his lingering in the neighborhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suppositions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
