Questions, . . . are like cellular acids that dissolve the glue holding our preconceptions, prejudices, presuppositions, etc. together in customary clumps. From LearnThat.org. [Kenneth Smith]
New Mysterianism is often characterized as a presupposition that some problems cannot be solved. From Wordnik.com. [Integral Options Cafe] Reference
This indicates that in this case the presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
A presupposition is a statement where you assume that the person is going to do something. From Wordnik.com. [eHow - Health How To's] Reference
He gave a fuller explanation of the notion of presupposition than he had previously provided. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frederick Strawson] Reference
That presupposition is far tookind. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on “Weight Classes” for Prison Inmates] Reference
By "presupposition" is meant a fundamental principle which the psychologist always has in mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference
This is a metaphysical/cosmological presupposition which is a mere assertion based on no argument. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Disruption!] Reference
We do not normally think that Hume's reflections on the foundations for our "presupposition" of causation in any way undermined science. From Wordnik.com. ['Without God': An Exchange] Reference
Man in "a state of nature" is only a presupposition, but a presupposition which is forced upon us by compelling evidence, conjectural and inferential though it is. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform] Reference
Self-determination is the presupposition of all morality. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
That is my intellectual presupposition, prior commitment. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
State, furthermore, was not a product but a presupposition. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
That has been the presupposition of our dialogue until now. From Wordnik.com. [Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution'] Reference
CARR: That ` s a presupposition that they ` re enabling them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009] Reference
Equally clear is the deistic presupposition of a uniform human nature. From Wordnik.com. [DEISM] Reference
And to make that presupposition that they did not, I think, is reckless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009] Reference
A philosophy of life, even, is the inevitable presupposition of every story. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Was the background presupposition that maybe Palin doesn't know how to read?. From Wordnik.com. [Palin To Skip The Sunday Shows This Weekend] Reference
Their presupposition is that government resources produced "undeserved" victories. From Wordnik.com. [When You Got it, You Got it and When You Don't, You Don't; so, when You Don't...] Reference
Behind them is the Hobbesian presupposition that man lives in a natural state of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Success of Failure] Reference
Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. From Wordnik.com. [Sermon at Temple Israel of Hollywood] Reference
Contrary to your presupposition, I am an Obama supporter and that is precisely why this is disappointing. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Spokesman: I Don't Know His Stance On FISA] Reference
I take it Freud's suggestion is an answer to that question, or to that question with that presupposition. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
That general idea is based on guesswork and is tainted by presupposition, bias, received wisdom, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Rambunctious Heyday of Gonzo, When Journalism Aspired to Art] Reference
Real an sich as the presupposition of the veridical character of this range of forms of religious experience. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Your presupposition is again that attacking/invading nations is the way of dealing with the new threat of terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [just one thing I wanna know] Reference
If the universe actually is what the materialistic atheist claims it is, then certain things follow from that presupposition. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hitchens: Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?] Reference
The first is the presupposition that those — and their families, especially the children — whom Evil targets are victims. From Wordnik.com. [The critical differences between conservatives and liberals] Reference
The presupposition is that a member of a regularly and historically oppressed minority treats every microphone like a bullhorn. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Bump: St. Petersburg's Walk-In Closet] Reference
Philo - sophically, the concept is based on the presupposition that the time has a material meaning and is imbued with content. From Wordnik.com. [ZEITGEIST] Reference
That presupposition would realistically no longer exist following the introduction of the ordination of women to episcopal office. From Wordnik.com. [Cardinal's Address on Women Bishops 'A Clear and Helpful Contribution'] Reference
The judgement 'to love is better than to hate' has a meaning complete in itself, which contains no reference whatever to any theological presupposition. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference
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