verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
existence
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This presupposes the existence of good audiological services.
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Such a way of life presupposes the existence of Greater Mind, and is based directly upon it.
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But all these specific activities of government presuppose the existence of an organized political society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Their whole system of belief presupposes a benevolent God.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Accountability usually presupposes evaluation, but evaluation does not necessarily imply accountability.
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Both found their analyses in a non-reflexive mode which presupposes the truth of a Marxist analysis of power.
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Economic liberalism, which presupposed equal competition among individuals, was no more than a pious fiction.
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For example, why do we accept what we have always presupposed rather than proved?
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It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none.
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Such questions are not only perennially interesting; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge.
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That rather presupposes that the firm's books are prepared correctly.
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Your argument presupposes that it does not matter who rules - that things will remain as they are whoever is in power.