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1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 165 Here is bibble babble inough but no argument, and all runnes vppon his wonted presupposals, that our doctrine is heresies and errours.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 163 If our presupposall be true, that the Poet is of all other the most auncient Orator.

1638 A. Henderson Protestation of Noblemen sig. C4^v Being assembled, against all qualifications and predeterminations, or presupposals, to propone, treat, reason, vote, and conclude, according to the Word of God, Confession of Faith, and acts of lawfull Assemblies, in all Ecclesiasticall matters.

1687 R. L'Estrange Answer to Let. to Dissenter 35 He..Proceeds upon the Presupposal of an Imaginary Breach, and Right.

1700 C. Mather in R. Calef More Wonders Invisible World ii. 20 Several of the Questions in the Paper are so Worded, as to carry in them a presupposal of the things inquired after.

1713 J. Butler Let. to S. Clarke in Wks. (1873) 289 The supposing any thing possibly to exist alone, so as not necessarily to include the presupposal of some other thing, proves demonstrably that that other thing is not necessarily existing.

1847 T. De Quincey Protestantism in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 848/1 Scriptural truth..is protected by its prodigious iteration, and secret presupposal in all varieties of form.

1984 D. Schwefel in P. K. Ghosh Third World Developm. i. 206 The naive economic presupposal of the impossibility of utility comparisons is false or inconsistent with what is implicated by economic theory and practice.