presuppositionlessadj.

1871 Davidson tr. F. A. Trendelenburg Die logische Frage in Hegel's System in Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 5 358 He who is strict enough to hold the presuppositionless dialectic of pure thought to its word, and really attempts to proceed without any presupposition and purely, soon sees that it remains immovable and that its productions are still-born.

1897 B. P. Bowne Theory Thought & Knowl. ii. i. 292 Instead of being presuppositionless, scepticism in most of its forms depends on undemonstrated psychological and metaphysical theories.

1940 Philos. Rev. 49 285 The idea of a presuppositionless philosophy.

1986 Brit. Jrnl. of Aesthetics Autumn 331 The theoretical contentions deal with..the objectivity of aesthetic interpretation and the impossibility of presuppositionless exegesis.

1897 Philos. Rev. 6 517 Whether we look at what Hegel says positively as to the presuppositionlessness of the initial category he has chosen, or at what he says negatively.[etc.]

1940 M. Farber Philos. Ess. in Memory E. Husserl 44 The claim of presuppositionlessness has been made at various times.

1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 52 The demand for depth has not been anchored in plain facts about rule-following..but rests on an interpretation of the case that imports the need for presuppositionlessness beforehand.