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Definition of presupposition in English: presuppositionnoun ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃ(ə)nˌpriˌsəpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n 1A thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action. 先决条件；预先假定的事；预测之事 both men shared certain ethical presuppositions about the universe Example sentencesExamples - And, a third embedded presupposition was that the client could place herself on such a scale.
- Sense is always presupposed as soon as I begin to speak; I would not be able to begin without this presupposition.
- The Christian idea of humanity is one such presupposition, and in our country, it is the culturally dominant one.
- The argument explores, therefore, the presuppositions of this self-consciousness.
- The analysis that follows from this presupposition identifies three tiers of the world economy: core, periphery, and semiperiphery.
- This is, therefore, an absolutely necessary need and justifies its presupposition not merely as an allowable hypothesis but as a practical postulate.
- At every turn the novel's implied reader is encouraged to read using a priori expectations, or presuppositions.
- Kant took himself to be delimiting the a priori presuppositions of experience, and of empirical science.
- My first argument: that no finite set of presuppositions can account for the practically uncountable number of human perspectives.
- His comment stresses the most important presupposition about the activity of spectators: spectating creates and reinforces our social, political, and even bodily place in the world.
- Discourse ethics has an a priori foundation: the presuppositions of discourse or argument.
- We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.
- However, it is by no means necessary to a theory of evolution that it embodies any presupposition of increasing or decreasing complexity.
- If they do, a theoretical diagnosis of the sceptic's presuppositions may encourage second thoughts about how well we understand everything he says.
- A very widespread but mistaken presupposition is that Revelation contains secret, coded messages, specifying the dates and details of cataclysmic events just around the corner.
- I have taken that presupposition for granted for forty years.
- First, often the very questions which challenge the presuppositions of a given problem are those which on their face seem most naïve.
- The argument, he claims is sound, given the six presuppositions.
- It's not surprising that critics celebrate novels which reflect their own prejudices and presuppositions.
- Moreover, the sceptical argument we have been considering has its own presuppositions, which it claims to know.
- Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.
- Rawls has since tried to eliminate the universalist presuppositions from his theory.
Synonyms presumption, assumption, preconception, preconceived idea/notion, supposition, hypothesis, surmise, speculation, guess, prediction, thesis, theory, premise, belief, suspicion, thought, argument, postulation, prejudgement - 1.1mass noun The action or state of presupposing or being presupposed.
预想，预先假定，预先推测 Example sentencesExamples - Russell, on the other hand, makes no distinction between assertion and presupposition.
- 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.
- Thus, compound negatives do not merely echo this thematized activity and its attendant dilemmas; instead, they create and undo presupposition.
- 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.
- 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 problem of determining the alternatives is thereby reduced to the problem of determining presupposition in context: the rules for computing alternatives are the same rules that govern the derivation of presupposition.
- I am here reading ‘supposition’ as Austen's thematic version of presupposition, since the latter remains a linguistically specific term.
- The entire novel is positioned on the threshold of turning inside out through Austen's use of negatives and their role in relation to presupposition and to the nature of the novel's parodic voice.
- 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.
- He has tutored Catherine in a form of intertextual ‘reading’ by analogy that forces likeness through automatic and inappropriate presupposition.
- 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.
Synonyms supposition, presumption, premise, belief, expectation, conjecture, speculation, surmise, guess, theory, hypothesis, postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, thought, suspicion, notion, impression, fancy
OriginMid 16th century: from medieval Latin praesuppositio(n-), from the verb praesupponere (see presuppose). Definition of presupposition in US English: presuppositionnounˌprēˌsəpəˈziSH(ə)nˌpriˌsəpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n 1A thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action. 先决条件；预先假定的事；预测之事 images that challenge presuppositions about feminine handiwork 难以预料到的妇女手工活的（精巧）形象。 Example sentencesExamples - A very widespread but mistaken presupposition is that Revelation contains secret, coded messages, specifying the dates and details of cataclysmic events just around the corner.
- Discourse ethics has an a priori foundation: the presuppositions of discourse or argument.
- Moreover, the sceptical argument we have been considering has its own presuppositions, which it claims to know.
- The argument, he claims is sound, given the six presuppositions.
- The analysis that follows from this presupposition identifies three tiers of the world economy: core, periphery, and semiperiphery.
- If they do, a theoretical diagnosis of the sceptic's presuppositions may encourage second thoughts about how well we understand everything he says.
- My first argument: that no finite set of presuppositions can account for the practically uncountable number of human perspectives.
- At every turn the novel's implied reader is encouraged to read using a priori expectations, or presuppositions.
- And, a third embedded presupposition was that the client could place herself on such a scale.
- Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.
- The Christian idea of humanity is one such presupposition, and in our country, it is the culturally dominant one.
- I have taken that presupposition for granted for forty years.
- Rawls has since tried to eliminate the universalist presuppositions from his theory.
- Kant took himself to be delimiting the a priori presuppositions of experience, and of empirical science.
- It's not surprising that critics celebrate novels which reflect their own prejudices and presuppositions.
- First, often the very questions which challenge the presuppositions of a given problem are those which on their face seem most naïve.
- This is, therefore, an absolutely necessary need and justifies its presupposition not merely as an allowable hypothesis but as a practical postulate.
- We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.
- The argument explores, therefore, the presuppositions of this self-consciousness.
- However, it is by no means necessary to a theory of evolution that it embodies any presupposition of increasing or decreasing complexity.
- His comment stresses the most important presupposition about the activity of spectators: spectating creates and reinforces our social, political, and even bodily place in the world.
- Sense is always presupposed as soon as I begin to speak; I would not be able to begin without this presupposition.
Synonyms presumption, assumption, preconception, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, supposition, hypothesis, surmise, speculation, guess, prediction, thesis, theory, premise, belief, suspicion, thought, argument, postulation, prejudgement - 1.1 The action or state of presupposing or being presupposed.
预想，预先假定，预先推测 Example sentencesExamples - Negative constructions have an overdetermined role with respect to presupposition.
- The entire novel is positioned on the threshold of turning inside out through Austen's use of negatives and their role in relation to presupposition and to the nature of the novel's parodic voice.
- I am here reading ‘supposition’ as Austen's thematic version of presupposition, since the latter remains a linguistically specific term.
- Thus, compound negatives do not merely echo this thematized activity and its attendant dilemmas; instead, they create and undo presupposition.
- The problem of determining the alternatives is thereby reduced to the problem of determining presupposition in context: the rules for computing alternatives are the same rules that govern the derivation of presupposition.
- 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.
- He has tutored Catherine in a form of intertextual ‘reading’ by analogy that forces likeness through automatic and inappropriate presupposition.
- The link must be a matter of investigation rather than of presupposition.
- The disjunction that has been caused derives from presupposition alone, assisted by Henry, its agent.
- Notice that the therapist did not explain or justify this presupposition in a preamble but simply embedded it in the question.
- 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.
- Nevertheless, parody remains within the economy of presupposition by its genre's definition.
- 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.
- Russell, on the other hand, makes no distinction between assertion and presupposition.
Synonyms supposition, presumption, premise, belief, expectation, conjecture, speculation, surmise, guess, theory, hypothesis, postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, thought, suspicion, notion, impression, fancy
OriginMid 16th century: from medieval Latin praesuppositio(n-), from the verb praesupponere (see presuppose). |