supposedadj.adv.n.

1587 R. Greene Euphues sig. K2 How soeuer you conclude your supposed Syllogisme vpon inheritance, wee meane to deny your argument by the proofe of my fathers Testament.

1773 E. Bentham Introd. Logick v. 89 Arguments ad hominem, proceeding from our Adversary's supposed principles different from our own..are of all others least to be esteemed.

1852 H. L. Mansel in H. Aldrich Artis Logicae Rudimenta (ed. 2) 92 (note) Aldrich considers the Example as..a Syllogism in Barbara with the minor premise suppressed. The supposed minor, according to this view, will be, ‘Caesar and Pompey are Sylla and Marius.’

1879 Mind 4 42 What probably gives rise to the opinion that there must be inference here is the conviction that the supposed premisses and conclusion are not the same thing exactly, whence it seems to follow that one must be inferred from the other.

1949 Mind 58 19 In each of these pairs of expressions the supposed conclusion is not significant, while the supposed premiss is.

1980 J. Lear Aristotle & Logical Theory (1985) iii. 44 Aristotle..is concerned with the most common example of argument with an explicitly supposed premiss—as opposed to one with premisses which could be supposed or asserted indifferently.

2010 R. Andrews Argumentation in Higher Educ. vii. 128 Some training in reading against the grain of a supposed argument would help alleviate the problem and produce sounder and rhetorically more polished arguments.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 114 The Chamælion..doth not change his owne colour into a supposed colour, but when it is oppressed with feare or griefe.

1766 J. Gwin in Rep. Late John Smeaton (1812) I. 184 This top crust, or supposed stratum of rock or hard cemented gravel, consists equally alike in all different places of trial by boring.

1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress viii. 359 During 10,000 years, each species will ebb away from certain regions it was inhabiting; and during the succeeding 10,000 years will flow back into those regions. From the strata there forming, its remains will disappear; they will be absent from some of the supposed strata; and will be found in strata higher up.

1730 Short Treat. Harmony i. 7 By making use of the Fundamental and of the supposed Basses as Occasion requires, We are enabled to make the Parts move the more by Degrees.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music (1853) I. i. iv. 20/1 With great ingenuity..did Euclid invent the famous division the Sectio Canonis, by means whereof not only the positions of the several sounds on a supposed chord are precisely ascertained, but [etc.].

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 83/2 Concords by supposition are those where the continued bass adds or supposes a new sound below the fundamental bass... Of these..there are three sorts,..the first, when the added sound is a third below... The second..when the supposed sound is a fifth below. [Etc.]

1812 Monthly Mag. Feb. 13/2 Put x, for the number of vibrations made in a given time by the lowest or fundamental note of a supposed chord of the thirteenth, the whole chord will then stand [etc.].

1845 Encycl. Metrop. V. 734 Every bass note which has a sixth upon it is a supposed bass.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. V. 735 The supposed harmony of the third of the key is..borrowed from the fundamental harmony of the key note.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. V. 755 The supposed discord is on the second accented part of the bar.

1984 Jrnl. Music Theory 82 82 Such dominant harmonies..are perfectly acceptable with an added seventh above this supposed bass note.

1993 T. S. Christensen Rameau & Musical Thought in Enlightenment (2004) iii. 54 We can see that with but a few licenses related to chromatic alterations, omitted notes, and ‘supposed’ basses, there are just four basic chord types involved and hence just four fundamental basses.

2002 J. Lester in T. S. Christensen Cambr. Hist. Western Mus. Theory iii. d xxiv. 764 Supposed chords became a highly contentious point in controversies involving Rameauian theory later in the eighteenth century.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 97 You must lay downe the treasures of your body, To this supposed . View more context for this quotation

1803 Ann. Rev. 1 i. 82/2 A sufficient discrimination has not always been made in this respect, and that the supposed, has been occasionally substituted for the real.

1811 in W. Cooke Thames I. The Saxon word Temeye, from whence the name of the river is derived, evidently proves that the supposed is a modern notion.

1866 ‘O. Optic’ Way of World (1867) xxvi. 335 Dr. Lynch wrote his confession. It contained the substance of his answers to Dick's questions; the supposed had become the actual.

1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic i. ii. 86 The supposed is treated as if it were real, in order to see how the real behaves when qualified thus in a certain manner.

1915 Q. Jrnl. Univ. N. Dakota Apr. 233 In this instance the supposed is tested by the ideal, for pure mathematics, the exact science, exists only in the ideal and does not change.

2001 T. Carhart Piano Shop on Left Bank (2002) xxi. 226 There was a strange moment as I lay there on the floor under my piano..when my senses were flooded with the exotic, the unknown, the supposed.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica ii. vi. 20 A Syllogism is a Speech in which something being suppos'd, something different from that suppos'd, by Reason of the Suppos'd, does of Necessity follow.

1917 Northwestern Reporter 162 764/1 The supposed is an extreme case.

a1969 C. Truesdell in A. M. Vinogradov Symmetries Partial Differential Equations (1989) i. 118 The supposed is rarely separated from what is to be proved.

2011 X. Xu & X. Wang in R. Chen Intelligent Computing & Information Sci. I. 329 In order to show problem simplicity for single input and single output system, the supposed can be put as equation (2)(3)(4).