Sentence example with the word 'premisses'

premisses

Last update: June 13, 2015


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The peculiar service which was rendered at this juncture by the ` Cambridge School' was that, instead of opposing a mere dogmatic opposition to the Tubingen critics, they met them frankly on their own ground; and instead of arguing that their conclusions ought not to be and could not be true, they simply proved that their facts and their premisses were wrong.   [Please select]

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(Syllogism, of course there may be without such premisses, but it will not be demonstration because it will not produce knowledge).   [Please select]

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If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses.'   [Please select]

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But are we to say that nothing is knowledge except what is validly deduced from true premisses.   [Please select]

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Thus we shall have to amend our definition by saying that knowledge is what is validly deduced from _known_ premisses.   [Please select]

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This, however, is a circular definition: it assumes that we already know what is meant by 'known premisses'.   [Please select]

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We may say: '_Derivative_ knowledge is what is validly deduced from premisses known intuitively'.   [Please select]

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* [*Footnote: Thought is taken in the two premisses in two totally different senses.   [Please select]

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Newman's intellect, when left to itself, was so clear, so powerful, so intense, that it cut through sophistry like a knife, and went straight from premisses to conclusion.   [Please select]

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When Causality is interpreted to mean mere necessary connexion--like the mathematical connexion between four and twice two or the logical connexion between the premisses of a Syllogism and its conclusion,--its nature is fundamentally misrepresented.   [Please select]

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