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What is the noun for presupposes?

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presupposition
  1. An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
  2. The act of presupposing.
  3. (linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “In this way the connexive concept of implication accounts for a necessary presupposition of all conditional and a fortiori logical orientation.”
      “And, a third embedded presupposition was that the client could place herself on such a scale.”
      “Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.”
presuppositionality
  1. The quality of being presuppositional.
presupposedness
  1. The state or quality of being presupposed.
presupposal
presuppositions
  1. plural of presupposition
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Kant took himself to be delimiting the a priori presuppositions of experience, and of empirical science.”
      “At every turn the novel's implied reader is encouraged to read using a priori expectations, or presuppositions.”
      “Its broader presuppositions relate to those of art in the era of postmodernism.”
presupposals
  1. plural of presupposal
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