单词 | presuppose |
释义 | † presupposen. Obsolete. rare. A presupposition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > [noun] > that which is presumed presupposal1573 presupposition1579 expectation1585 presuppose1592 positum1605 assumpsita1628 assumptiona1628 prolepsis1637 reception1646 hypothesis1655 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 84 Hauing made thys..swasiue præsuppose [It. praesupposito]..I..determined..to come backe againe to this noble..Nymph. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). presupposev. 1. a. transitive. Of a person: to assume, suppose, or postulate beforehand; to take for granted; to presume; to think or believe (something) in advance of actual knowledge or experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > suppose, surmise [verb (transitive)] ween971 readOE aweena1275 guessc1380 supposec1384 seemc1386 imaginec1405 presupposec1443 deem1470 surmise1509 suspectc1550 doubt1568 expect1592 s'pose1632 fancy1672 sus1958 the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > assume, presuppose [verb (transitive)] supposec1350 presumec1390 take1429 presupposec1443 takec1449 presupponec1475 supponea1513 subsume1562 foreprise1577 to take for granted1615 to give for granted1637 assume1660 foretake1674 premisea1706 predicate1718 dare say1749 pre-assume1789 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 164 (MED) Certis þis secunde party of þis present xxxixe. trouþe is so open, presupposid þe first party to be trewe, þat it nediþ not no long proof. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 3043 Pre-supposyd ther be no whyht To whom the offyce sholde of ryht appertene off duete. 1482 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden iii. xv Yf hester had be in his tyme [it] is to presuppose he wolde somwhat haue spoken of hir. ?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Fiii Presupposynge hym nat to be in muche other case. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 321 Presupposynge the thynge to bee impossible they neuer attempted it. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 25 A man wuld have præsupposid that the Masters letters to his præsident miht have dun somewhat with his præsident. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Vv4v Men of corrupted minds presuppose, that honesty groweth out of Simplicitye of manners. View more context for this quotation 1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) ii. viii. 24 A Man can but perceive the Exterior Parts of another Man..; yet, his Rational Parts may suppose, or presuppose, what another Man thinks, or what he will act. 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory xxi. 580 I presuppose that you keep the Devils Books out of your hands and house. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 308 All the Authors I have met with seem to presuppose their Reader to understand Geometry. 1784 E. Allen Reason xii. §1. 386 By so doing you pre-suppose the doctrine of apostacy or original sin to be in fact true. 1809 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 179 Pre-supposing such a desire to please. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. x. 90 With a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 273 You can tell that a song or ode has three parts—..that degree of knowledge I may presuppose. 1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism v. 138 I shall have to presuppose that the reader will have read that..[essay]. 1963 W. P. McEwen Probl. of Social-sci. Knowl. i. iii. 37 He presupposes that intelligent intervention in the sociocultural process may influence what the future of that objective referent may become. 2004 M. Potter Set Theory & its Philos. i. 9 There is no direct circularity if we presuppose sets in our study of sets..since the first occurrence of the word is in the metalanguage, the second in the object language. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > assume, presuppose [verb (transitive)] > in sequence presuppose1697 1697 G. Keith Ess. Discov. Geom. Probl. 7 To presuppose the knowledge of Conick Sections to the knowledge of some necessary Problems in plain Geometry, is greatly incongruous. 2. transitive. Of an idea, fact, attitude, action, etc.: to require as a necessary preceding condition; to imply or require as something previously or already present or in existence. In passive also occasionally with to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > be presupposed [verb (passive)] presupposec1443 the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > assume, presuppose [verb (transitive)] > of actions, etc. : require as basis presupposec1443 supposea1475 presupponea1599 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 42 (MED) Siþen þese þingis presupposen and requyren afore hem a grettir good to be found or to seeme in vs þan þei ben, oure grettist good may not stonde in hem. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Giii The holy lyfe of religion, presuposeth grace. 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull Repert. Faith, hope, and charitie, be presupposed to the .vii. giftes of the holy gooast. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lviii. 129 Other principles..although not specified in defining, are notwithstanding in nature implyed and presupposed. 1653 G. Ashwell Fides Apostolica 142 And Christs descent into Hell, is presupposed to the Article of his Resurrection. 1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 123 Princes..can have few friends, because friendship presupposeth some kind of equality. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace v. 94 We close with Christ by faith, but that faith being a vital act, presupposes a principle of life communicated to us by the Spirit. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 319 In all rational agents, before every action there is presupposed a knowledge of the thing that is to be produced by that action. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 147 Every effect necessarily pre-supposes a cause. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. Pref. 4 The idea of punishment presupposes the idea of offence. 1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. 55 346 A certain originality; in which rare gift Force of all kinds is presupposed. 1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. iv. 84 In all culture, nature is presupposed. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Aug. 231 Healthy sleep presupposes a healthy state of brain. 1900 A. T. Ormond Found. of Knowl. i. i. 31 The distinction that is to be made between what is presupposed only, and what is actually apprehended in consciousness. 1912 B. Russell Probl. Philos. vii. 115 Logical principles are known to us, and cannot be themselves proved by experience, since all proof presupposes them. 1943 A. Farrer Finite & Infinite i. ii. 17 We must be able to claim to see a mutual belonging together of entities in their actual existence so that one cannot be itself without the other; and since we are setting out to find the presuppositions of theism, let us make it clear from the outset that this is presupposed. 1953 R. May Man's Search for Himself v. 155 The rebel forgets that rebellion always presupposes an outside structure—of rules, laws, expectations—against which one is rebelling. 1988 M. M. R. Khan When Spring Comes i. 11 Seeking and taking advice presupposes a capacity to accept dependence. 2004 Church Times 3 Dec. 20/2 He does not want to go as..the view that our talk of the Trinity is presupposed to any true talk about God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592v.c1443 |
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