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presupposepre‧sup‧pose /ˌpriːsəˈpəʊz $ -ˈpoʊz/ verb [transitive] formal VERB TABLEpresuppose |
Present | I, you, we, they | presuppose | | he, she, it | presupposes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | presupposed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have presupposed | | he, she, it | has presupposed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had presupposed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will presuppose | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have presupposed |
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Present | I | am presupposing | | he, she, it | is presupposing | | you, we, they | are presupposing | Past | I, he, she, it | was presupposing | | you, we, they | were presupposing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been presupposing | | he, she, it | has been presupposing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been presupposing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be presupposing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been presupposing |
- Their whole system of belief presupposes a benevolent God.
- Accountability usually presupposes evaluation, but evaluation does not necessarily imply accountability.
- Both found their analyses in a non-reflexive mode which presupposes the truth of a Marxist analysis of power.
- Economic liberalism, which presupposed equal competition among individuals, was no more than a pious fiction.
- For example, why do we accept what we have always presupposed rather than proved?
- It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none.
- Such questions are not only perennially interesting; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge.
- That rather presupposes that the firm's books are prepared correctly.
- Your argument presupposes that it does not matter who rules - that things will remain as they are whoever is in power.
NOUN► existence· This presupposes the existence of good audiological services.· Such a way of life presupposes the existence of Greater Mind, and is based directly upon it.· But all these specific activities of government presuppose the existence of an organized political society. nounsuppositionpresuppositionverbsupposepresupposeadjectivesupposedadverbsupposedly 1to depend on something that is believed to exist or to be true SYN assume: The idea of heaven presupposes the existence of God.presuppose that Your argument presupposes that Dickens was a social reformer.2to have to happen if something is true: Without struggle there can be no progress, and struggle presupposes winners and losers. |