presuppositionpre‧sup‧po‧si‧tion /ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən/ noun formal - But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity.
- Consequently, we shall, as with reference, avoid attributing presuppositions to sentences or propositions.
- Do you see how presuppositions come in?
- How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
- In each case the foreign presuppositions bring their own problems with them.
- The mutual relationship between presuppositions and evidences could be expressed like this.
- Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.
- These are obvious, though complicated-sounding, examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without.
nounsuppositionpresuppositionverbsupposepresupposeadjectivesupposedadverbsupposedly