presupposition
something that is assumed in advance or taken for granted:The conflict could have been avoided if the speakers had openly acknowledged the presuppositions that each of them brought to the discussion.
Origin of presupposition
1Other words from presupposition
- pre·sup·po·si·tion·less, adjective
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How to use presupposition in a sentence
I guess I tend to agree with the presupposition of your question that making people better off ought to be inspiring in itself.
Over several days, a lab tech with no presuppositions about a universal conspiracy toward cubes painstakingly counted faces and vertices on hundreds of grains.
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology | Joshua Sokol | November 19, 2020 | Quanta MagazineVisions of utopian living are always based on presuppositions about what kinds of urban spaces make people happier or healthier.
AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities | Will Heaven | September 22, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThese are all things which cannot be proved by rational enquiry, but which must be presupposed in order for rational enquiry to take place.
The Universe Knows Right from Wrong - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Philip Goff | September 9, 2020 | NautilusThe key presupposition of the scientist is not “There is no God” but rather “The world speaks truthfully of its nature.”
That matter lasts and cannot disappear is such a presupposition, which comes to us with the necessity of logical thinking.
Psychotherapy | Hugo MnsterbergBy “presupposition” is meant a fundamental principle which the psychologist always has in mind.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry PyleIf that scientific presupposition is absent from Magic and from Religion, it is implicitly present in mechanical behaviour.
The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion | James H. LeubaFor every human presupposition and declaration has as much authority one as another, if reason do not make the difference.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de MontaigneTo those that contend upon presupposition we must, on the contrary, presuppose to them the same axiom upon which the dispute is.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de Montaigne
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