Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Supposition in advance of experience or knowledge; surmise; conjecture.
- noun Postulation as of an antecedent condition; hence, that which is postulated as a necessary antecedent condition; a prerequisite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
- noun That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
assumption made beforehand; a preliminaryconjecture orspeculation . - noun The act of
presupposing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Inherent in this presupposition is the idea that progress is the privilege of Europeans 'descendants, out of which biased ideas about Africans and others are fostered and accepted as truth.
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The second presupposition is seen in the expression “liturgy of the Church” meaning the post-conciliar forms.
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Your presupposition is that our government needs to maintain its current level of spending, or will increase spending, which, while entirely likely, will dip again at some point, the nature of the economy being slightly cyclical.
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New Mysterianism is often characterized as a presupposition that some problems cannot be solved.
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January 21st, 2010 at 2: 09 pm pezmiztix says: backup says … .. that’s your presupposition – not mine. it appears no one has the answer. but for you to suppose my presupposition is presumptuous. however, it’s become apparent that public sentiment has decided nothing is better than something.
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This indicates that in this case the presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon.
Him 2009
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New Mysterianism is often characterized as a presupposition that some problems cannot be solved.
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He gave a fuller explanation of the notion of presupposition than he had previously provided.
Peter Frederick Strawson Snowdon, Paul 2009
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It seems to me that one of the most contentious and unremarked upon effects of speculative realism has to do with its attack on a piece of continental dogma - namely the presupposition that ontology is necessarily political.
the accursed share 2009
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A presupposition is a statement where you assume that the person is going to do something.
hawk05 commented on the word presupposition
This word relates to Apologetics.
July 4, 2023