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Definition of Supposals
1. supposal [n] - See also: supposal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supposals
Literary usage of Supposals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The iniquity of imposing conditions and supposals on the purpose of God, not in
the least intimated by himself. The whole acknowledged design of the apostle ..."
2. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
""supposals" are not mere ideas or images, since a supposal always involves a ...
Meinong's discussions of supposals are a valuable contribution to the ..."
3. Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic" by Bernard Bosanquet (1885)
"But I should have thought that the fact obviously included the assertion of both,
or, in Mr. Bradley's way of speaking, of all four supposals. ..."
4. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, Edward Manson, John Melville Gould (1898)
"And it will be a cause of infinite vexation and occasion of perjury and smothering
of great offences, if such averments and supposals shall be admitted ..."
5. Space, Time, and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow, 1916-1918 by Samuel Alexander (1920)
"Meinong's work on the subject,1 as supposals, where there is neither truth nor
error, since no belief is entertained ; for example, ' that the Earth is flat ..."
6. Man and the Cosmos: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922)
""supposals" are not mere ideas or images, since a supposal always involves a ...
Meinong's discussions of supposals are a valuable contribution to the ..."
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