Suppose Zachary believes in the general principle of always obeying the commands in the Bible, and mistakenly thinks that these are completely encompassed by every Old Testament command.

Suppose also that he thinks that it is not ethical to stone people to death merely for being Wiccan.

The Washington Post wrote about him, " Suppose a maniac got hold of a talk show.

His neighbor Bill Black knows far more about these events than he admits, and, observing this, begins worrying: " Suppose Ragle is becoming sane again?

Suppose one measures the position: this act destroys any information about its momentum.

Suppose that a mathematician is studying geometry and shapes, and she wishes to prove certain theorems about them.

Example: Suppose there are only three principles in our scientific theory about electrons ( those principles can be seen to be statements involving the properties ):

Suppose we want to transmit information about a source to the user with a distortion not exceeding D. Rate – distortion theory tells us that at least R ( D ) bits / symbol of information from the source must reach the user.

During an appearance on Larry King Live, he was asked by a telephone caller " Suppose we go to war and go into Iraq and there are no weapons of mass destruction ," Woodward responded " I think the chance of that happening is about zero.

Suppose that we have statements, denoted by some formal sequence of symbols, about some objects ( for example, numbers, shapes, patterns ).

Suppose the muon happens to have fallen into an orbit around a deuteron initially, which it has about a 50 % chance of doing if there are approximately equal numbers of deuterons and tritons present, forming an electrically neutral muonic deuterium atom ( d-μ )< sup > 0 </ sup > that acts somewhat like a " fat, heavy neutron " due both to its relatively small size ( again, about 207 times smaller than an electrically neutral electronic deuterium atom ( d-e )< sup > 0 </ sup >) and to the very effective " shielding " by the muon of the positive charge of the proton in the deuteron.

To illustrate his thoughts he used the following example: Suppose an object C, on which an infinite small plane zz and a sphere centered about zz is drawn.

Suppose we are talking about Mike's house:

Suppose I believe that if I flap my arms with sufficient vigor, I can take off and fly about the room ; could I defend myself against the charge of irrationality by claiming this belief is basic?

Suppose we are given a Hilbert space and a Hermitian operator over it called the Hamiltonian H. Ignoring complications about continuous spectra, we look at the discrete spectrum of H and the corresponding eigenspaces of each eigenvalue λ ( see spectral theorem for Hermitian operators for the mathematical background ):

Suppose in addition that there is nothing at all that can be done about the pollution.

Suppose there are just three possible hypotheses about the correct method of classification, and with posteriors 0. 4, 0. 3 and 0. 3 respectively.

Suppose that you are being given tips about design, connoisseurship and all these things ; obviously it's really just so that you can look plutographically at the lives of the rich.

; Dennett's reply from natural selection: Suppose that, by some mutation, a human being is born that does not have Searle's " causal properties " but nevertheless acts exactly like a human being.

Suppose the formula for some given function is known, but too complex to evaluate efficiently.

It is frequently stated in the following equivalent form: Suppose that is continuous and that u is a real number satisfying or Then for some c ∈ b, f ( c ) = u.

Suppose Alice has a qubit in some arbitrary quantum state.

# Suppose that P is some piece of knowledge.

:: “ Suppose that a sheriff were faced with the choice either of framing a Negro for a rape that had aroused hostility to the Negroes ( a particular Negro generally being believed to be guilty but whom the sheriff knows not to be guilty )— and thus preventing serious anti-Negro riots which would probably lead to some loss of life and increased hatred of each other by whites and Negroes — or of hunting for the guilty person and thereby allowing the anti-Negro riots to occur, while doing the best he can to combat them.

Suppose block M is a dominator with several incoming edges, some of them being back edges ( so M is a loop header ).

* Suppose that is a sequence of Lipschitz continuous mappings between two metric spaces, and that all have Lipschitz constant bounded by some K. If ƒ < sub > n </ sub > converges to a mapping ƒ uniformly, then ƒ is also Lipschitz, with Lipschitz constant bounded by the same K. In particular, this implies that the set of real-valued functions on a compact metric space with a particular bound for the Lipschitz constant is a closed and convex subset of the Banach space of continuous functions.

Suppose some given data points each belong to one of two classes, and the goal is to decide which class a new data point will be in.

Suppose M is some 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold ( not necessarily compact ), and we specify a " triangle " on M formed by three geodesics.

Suppose we are given boundary conditions, i. e., a specification of the value of φ at the boundary if M is compact, or some limit on φ as x approaches ∞.

Suppose that one has a table listing the population of some country in 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000, and that one wanted to estimate the population in 1994.

Suppose some particle has a mass m which is 3. 4 times the mass of electron.

Suppose, however, that we have some matrix Q that is not a pure rotation — due to round-off errors, for example — and we wish to find the quaternion q that most accurately represents Q.

Suppose two people who once loved each other come to be on bad terms ; they must make some condition of reconciliation before the love they previously enjoyed can be revived.

Suppose that the government finances some extra spending through deficits ; i. e. it chooses to tax later.

Suppose we can use some number, to index the quality of used cars, where is uniformly distributed over the interval.

Suppose that hunting requires also some arrows, with input coefficients equal to, meaning that to catch for instance one beaver you need to use arrows, besides hours of labour.

Suppose that ζ is an th root of unity for some odd prime.

Suppose that ζ is an lth root of unity for some odd regular prime l. Since l is regular, we can extend the symbol

Suppose for some unknown constants and unobserved random variables, where and, where < math > k < p </ math >, we have

Suppose some theory T implies an observation O ( observation meaning here the result of the observation, rather than the process of observation per se ):

Suppose we replace the real Hamiltonian of the model by a trial Hamiltonian, which has different interactions and may depend on extra parameters that are not present in the original model.

Suppose a single extra pair of identical traders is added to this initial pair.