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How to use presupposition in a sentence

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However, it is by no means necessary to a theory of evolution that it embodies any presupposition of increasing or decreasing complexity.
And, a third embedded presupposition was that the client could place herself on such a scale.
Russell, on the other hand, makes no distinction between assertion and presupposition.
Our presupposition is pretty fantastical in comparison to the one held by the general population.
The case of subcontraries will be revealed to include an unjustified presupposition in the section concerning the modern square of opposition.
My second point of dissent is Dean's presupposition that parents were sufficiently informed, by almanacs, about planetary positions.
In this way the connexive concept of implication accounts for a necessary presupposition of all conditional and a fortiori logical orientation.
The disjunction that has been caused derives from presupposition alone, assisted by Henry, its agent.
Nevertheless, parody remains within the economy of presupposition by its genre's definition.
Notice that the therapist did not explain or justify this presupposition in a preamble but simply embedded it in the question.
Negative constructions have an overdetermined role with respect to presupposition.
Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
Implicature is concerned with the various inferences we can make without actually being told, and includes presupposition.
The treatment of presupposition is thus generalized and integrated into the discourse update procedure.
A pastoral presupposition here was that this had to be made possible for peope who had no theologically trained personnel on the spot.
This is, therefore, an absolutely necessary need and justifies its presupposition not merely as an allowable hypothesis but as a practical postulate.
I have taken that presupposition for granted for forty years.
While analogy is not a tainted operation in and of itself, automatic analogy is the means by which presupposition comes to dictate the reading of the text.
The link must be a matter of investigation rather than of presupposition.
Using Clendinnen's private lives to preface this very public one is a tactic meant to stay the hand of presupposition and the stereotypes it holds.
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Examples from Classical Literature
On the life of the family, then, as a presupposition, all systems of Education must be built.
For the critic cannot enlighten or satisfy the masses with his presupposition, Man.
Veblen has made it perfectly clear that particular matters of theory are affected by the presupposition of hedonism.
Others have been rendered single-seeing through obsessional use of the monocular lens, given over to proof of the presupposition.
This presupposition is not stated, and is not implied in the form of the syllogism.
His own will is presupposition for being hypnotized and for realizing the suggestion.
Consciousness is the presupposition for the existence of the psychical objects.
This appreciation of time-intervals is, however, obviously a product of memory, not a presupposition of it.
Uniformity of law is the condition and presupposition of all our thinking.
The presupposition is really a condition of geometrical thinking at all.
His problem is to discover the presupposition of this presupposition.
This is the presupposition which we must explain and make good.
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