Presuppositions in a sentence

But the most pernicious bias comes from the presuppositions that underlie any story — and from the story ideas that never get past the gatekeepers.

Fundamentalists did not view these “modernist” theological trends as a product of different interpretive methods and presuppositions.

Driving out all the rational citizens, those who desire the truth, not propaganda lightly salted with truth but the full truth supporting or destroying our presuppositions, that is the object of the exercise.

A modified logic can take account of existential presuppositions using the presuppositional operator, '*'.

Augustine’s understanding of signs includes several hermeneutical presuppositions as important factors.

Baader starts from the position that human reason by itself can never reach the end it aims at and maintains that we cannot throw aside the presuppositions of faith, church, and tradition.

By way of example of how to clarify conceptions, he addressed conceptions about truth and the real as questions of the presuppositions of reasoning in general.

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.

Here is an account with fewer presuppositions: suppose that we associate with each well-ordering an object called its order type in an unspecified way (the order types are the ordinal numbers).

His claim seems to have been based on Euclidean presuppositions, because no logical contradiction was present.

It is thus not too surprising that what results is confused and contradictory.” citation Chandran Kukathas argues that Hayek's defence of liberalism is unsuccessful because it rests on presuppositions which are incompatible.

Louise R. Heath, "Notes on Whitehead's Philosophy 3b: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science", September 27, 1924, Whitehead Research Project, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, California.

Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.

The early reports set the tradition and scholarly premises for typology of Hinduism, as well as the major assumptions and flawed presuppositions that has been at the foundation of Indology.

The notion of a "deconstructive" approach implies an analysis that questions the already evident understanding of a text in terms of presuppositions, ideological underpinnings, hierarchical values, and frames of reference.

Thus, Christianity which by no means begins, as do those high flying thinkers, without presuppositions, nor with a flattering presupposition, presupposes this.