Presuppose

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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which is why theories that presuppose perfect competition should not be used to make policy in the real world. mpowell says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

The guidelines are focused on central aims and subject matter which presuppose thoughtful teaching to be accomplished well. ❋ C. M. Rubin (2011)

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 (2012)

To begin with you presuppose that I have no knowledge about Amsterdam or any city that has agriculture in a close proximity to its outskirts, when I have in fact lived in those very environs for about 40 of my 54 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Believing Jews and Christians both presuppose that God can reveal himself in history and that in fact he has revealed himself as creator of all men and as saviour and redeemer of his chosen people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meaningful bilateral negotiations presuppose equal bargaining power, but this is clearly not the case between China and the Philippines. ❋ Daniel Wagner (2011)

The "autonomy" game does not presuppose itself outside the rules of relativism; it simply solicits recognition as one game among the others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Moreover, Quinton's defence of traditionalism does, in fact, tacitly presuppose a substantive theory of human society, even though this tacit theory is used to derive methodological, rather than substantive, political prescriptions. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

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.” ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

But since we are talking about something called ‘anti-marxist socialism’ – why, they certainly presuppose a strong welfare state, and they are anti-marxist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Peter Berkowitz (2011)

[6] The rubrics of the renewed Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI presuppose a common direction of priest and people for the core of the Eucharistic liturgy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

The scientific validity of the methods and their educational effectiveness makes them increasingly appreciated for the human values that they presuppose and strengthen, when they are taught and presented in a suitable anthropological and ethical context, according to the wise directive expressed in Paul VI's Encyclical Humanae vitae and so many times explained in subsequent documents of the Magisterium. ❋ Unknown (2009)