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That said, such calls presuppose that Obama will be included in the "need to know" loop of any hardcore evidence of aliens contact ... and I very much doubt he will.

Latest Articles 2009

You try using new words like "presuppose" to try to get around this, but you just don't understand that you DO NOT have the education to argue in the literary sense of the word.

CNN.com 2010

Mr. I have read tiny bits of college level philosphy and now I use the word "presuppose" to sound learned. please raise up off these N-u-Teez.

Think Progress 2009

Today, however, when hundreds of millions of people from diverse cultures claim to have experienced miracles, it seems hardly courteous to presuppose a "uniform" human experience on the subject.

Craig S. Keener: Miracles In The Bible And Today Craig S. Keener 2012

Eager journalists and foreign diplomats, keen to divine the secret thinking of the Bush administration, found themselves poring over sentences such as “I want to avoid the materialist determinism that says that liberal economics inevitably produces liberal politics, because I believe that both economics and politics presuppose an autonomous prior state of consciousness that makes them possible.”

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Mr. Balkin argued that this Constitutional provision gives the president authority to raise the debt ceiling on his own, even though neither a debt ceiling nor a default calls into question the U.S's financial obligations under law; indeed, both presuppose the validity of the nation's public debt.

The Debt Deal and the Progressive Crack-Up Peter Berkowitz 2011

All of them presuppose an existing interest in literature and in advocating on behalf of literature, but the literary academy as a whole can no longer summon up such interest.

Literary Study 2009

Today, however, when hundreds of millions of people from diverse cultures claim to have experienced miracles, it seems hardly courteous to presuppose a "uniform" human experience on the subject.

Craig S. Keener: Miracles In The Bible And Today Craig S. Keener 2012

The "autonomy" game does not presuppose itself outside the rules of relativism; it simply solicits recognition as one game among the others.

Art and Culture 2010

For that would appear to presuppose that we were excluding certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case, since it would require that logic should go beyond the limits of the world; for only in that way could it view those limits from the other side as well.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011