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What does presuppose mean?

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  1. To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
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They may indeed show that one can construct Frankfurt-type examples that explicitly presuppose indeterminism in which there are no alternative possibilities.
The thing about questions like this is that they presuppose an adversarial relationship with clients, and that's so not the case with me.
Metaphorical extension does, however, presuppose the recognition of similarities, or correspondences, between the source and the target domains.
But, of course, it does not presuppose that all speakers understand the word this way, only that they can if they think about it in a certain way.
Such an argument would have to presuppose that there is somehow something wrong with being gay.
This perception of blindness in terms of social exclusion appears in some passages of the Israelite literature that presuppose the Levitical health care system.

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