presuppose

How To Use presuppose In A Sentence

• Their ability to conduct surprise raids presupposed close familiarity with currents, beaches, and locations of population centres.
• The application of the concept following a rule presupposes a custom.
• A scientist never presupposes the truth of an unproved fact.
• This argument presupposes a consensus on the nature of the international crimes we have just questioned.
• In this paper, I will try to show that these contributions fail to articulate an adequate concept of embodied personhood for anthropology because they presuppose impoverished notions of semiosis and language.
• If we say that science is organised knowledge, we are met by the truth that all knowledge is organised in a greater or less degree -- that the commonest actions of the household and the field presuppose facts colligated, inferences drawn, results expected; and that the general success of these actions proves the data by which they were guided to have been correctly put together. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
• Nonetheless, such schemas hide the inherent processual nature of identity construction and belie the power of consumption practices to contextualize ethnicity-to presuppose, recreate, or to forge anew.
• Its constitutive power can never be thought of in historical terms because it presupposes moving out of the structures that define an historical condition.
• Mental predicates therefore presuppose the mentality that creates them: mentality cannot consist simply in the applicability of the predicates themselves.
• It is not only biology, but cosmology, physics and astronomy that presuppose a general evolutionary account of the cosmos.