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Meanings of presupposition in English

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Usage of presupposition in English
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But I don't want my music to be categorized with a presupposition.
Ebony
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The authority of the State, furthermore, was not a product but a presupposition.
Readings on Fascism and National Socialism / Selected by members...
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There will arise the insistent question as to whether the habitual presupposition is right.
How to Teach
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But merely to raise these questions of presupposition should tend to clarify the discussion.
Civics: as Applied Sociology
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The underlying presupposition is, of course, that nothing is good in itself, including embodied existence.
Is Human Nature Obsolete?
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By "presupposition" is meant a fundamental principle which the psychologist always has in mind.
The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners
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On this presupposition, experiments are unlikely to produce situations that do not accord with quantum mechanics.
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
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This historical presupposition of Mosaism has external evidence in its favour, and is inherently quite probable.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
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This appreciation of time-intervals is, however, obviously a product of memory, not a presupposition of it.
The Analysis of Mind
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The sceptics too had not worked free from the presupposition that the essence of religion is dogma.
Darwin and Modern Science
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It is still a demand, not a presupposition (xvii.
Prolegomena to the History of Israel
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Self-determination is the presupposition of all morality.
Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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Behind the choice lay a moral presupposition.
The Irish Times
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The presupposition of a constitution implies, however, at once, that any modification in it must take place constitutionally.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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Any behaviour that contradicts that presupposition will be discounted and any evidence that confirms it will be exaggerated.
The Guardian
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The presupposition, however, that the fortunes of the State depend upon the particular character of the monarch is false.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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