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Presuppose meaning
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
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Example sentences (17)
One would presuppose such ambition is based on a deep understanding of the American economy.
He said: “What we can’t do in this IRMP, and I know people always want more detail, is presuppose what the public want.
Though Boley was clear not to presuppose his appointment as mayor, he said his focus as a member of the commission would be increasing clarity, transparency and prioritization in the budget process.
As long as they carry a threat to the dominion of reason over the soul they constitute moral evil, but since they do not presuppose consent, one cannot call them sins.
For Peirce, rational inquiry implies presuppositions about truth and the real; to reason is to presuppose (and at least to hope), as a principle of the reasoner's self-regulation, that the real is discoverable and independent of our vagaries of opinion.
He alleges that the problems are traceable to a set of related assumptions about the nature of language, which themselves presuppose a particular conception of the essence of language.
He writes that we must "presuppose the reality and knowability of the mental."sfn These replies question whether Searle is justified in using his own experience of consciousness to determine that it is more than mechanical symbol processing.
However, there are other formulations of that axiom that do not presuppose the existence of an empty set.
In that case, the tripod that Hesiod won might have been awarded for his rendition of Theogony, a poem that seems to presuppose the kind of aristocratic audience he would have met at Chalcis.
Nehamas shows that this interpretation exists totally independently of physics and does not presuppose the truth of cosmology.
Peirce argued that even to argue against the independence and discoverability of truth and the real is to presuppose that there is, about that very question under argument, a truth with just such independence and discoverability.
That answer would just presuppose additional contingent beings.
That is, by describing social systems as operationally closed networks of communications, Luhmann (according to Maturana) ignores the fact that communications presuppose human communicators.
There are several such systems, which vary as to how they divide the octave they presuppose or the graphical shape of the accidentals.
These apparent contradictions, however, presuppose that such attributes are separately defined and detached from God, which is not necessarily so.
The Zaidi doctrine of Imamah does not presuppose the infallibility of the imam nor that the Imams receive divine guidance.
To be wise does not mean to presuppose that others are wise; on the contrary, it may be very wise and true if the truly wise person assumes that far from all people are wise.