Presupposition

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The second presupposition is seen in the expression “liturgy of the Church” meaning the post-conciliar forms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

New Mysterianism is often characterized as a presupposition that some problems cannot be solved. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This indicates that in this case the presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He gave a fuller explanation of the notion of presupposition than he had previously provided. ❋ Snowdon, Paul (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A presupposition is a statement where you assume that the person is going to do something. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the arguments against GR/SR on close examination turn out to suppose that they are not maximally applied -- that is, the presupposition is that they are not systematically and thoroughly applied, so that it is possible to engage in reciprocity at one level of generality (e.g., exposing someone to the classical music you yourself like, because you would like to be so exposed) that violates reciprocity at a more general level (e.g., not exposing someone to music they find temperamentally unpleasant, because you would not like to be exposed to music you find temperamentally unpleasant). ❋ Unknown (2006)

But as it turns out, neither mythicism nor young-earth creationism is about the evidence at all, but is a presupposition which is brought to the evidence and which no evidence can ever counter. ❋ James F. McGrath (2010)

We do not normally think that Hume's reflections on the foundations for our "presupposition" of causation in any way undermined science. ❋ Castner, Edward (2008)

Therefore, my attempt to harmonize the dogmas of EED and ADS in no way depends, as Benedict would have it, on any "presupposition" that natural theology has "authority over revealed theology," a presupposition that no orthodox Catholic would dare make. ❋ Mike L (2007)

This is a metaphysical/cosmological presupposition which is a mere assertion based on no argument. ❋ Unknown (2006)

By "presupposition" is meant a fundamental principle which the psychologist always has in mind. ❋ William Henry Pyle (N/A)

Man in "a state of nature" is only a presupposition, but a presupposition which is forced upon us by compelling evidence, conjectural and inferential though it is. ❋ James Harvey Robinson (1899)

Matthew Yglesias: The world of education politics often seems oddly dominated by the presupposition that doing one thing somehow precludes you from doing anything else. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The world of education politics often seems oddly dominated by the presupposition that doing one thing somehow precludes you from doing anything else. ❋ Unknown (2010)