Meanings
- not comparableNot absent; present.
In infinitesimal particle incorporeality, which is reason, is absent, but noneternality, which is probandum, is not absent, whereas as per the rule both should be absent. Thus, it contains the fallacy of nonabsent probandum.
2017, S.R. Bhatt, Anu Mehrotra, Buddhist Epistemology, page 1242 more examples
They only control how many nonabsent events have appeared before their invocation, f and g in mealyPT processes on the other hand determine the time instant of their next invocation independent of the number of nonabsent events.
2018, Axel Jantsch, “Models of Computation for Distributed Embedded Systems”, in Richard Zurawski, editor, Embedded Systems Handbook, pages 3-24In this case, Mrs. Smith's children lost benefits in 1966 because "a Mr. Williams came to her home on weekends and had sexual relations with her." By viewing a "substitute father" as "a nonabsent parent within the federal statute," said Chief Justice Warren, Alabama "denies aid to an otherwise eligible needy child on the basis that his substitute parent is not absent from the home."
2018, Lucius J Barker, Michael Combs, Kevin Lyles, Civil Liberties and the Constitution: Cases and Commentaries
Origin
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