PRESUPPOSITION


Meaning of PRESUPPOSITION in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity.

Consequently, we shall, as with reference, avoid attributing presuppositions to sentences or propositions.

Do you see how presuppositions come in?

How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?

In each case the foreign presuppositions bring their own problems with them.

The mutual relationship between presuppositions and evidences could be expressed like this.

Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.

These are obvious, though complicated-sounding, examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without.

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