presupposition

How To Use presupposition In A Sentence

• How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?
• Presupposition doesn't enter into the definition of anacoluthon. On anacolutha
• Kant took himself to be delimiting the a priori presuppositions of experience, and of empirical science.
• 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.
• We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.
• He has tutored Catherine in a form of intertextual ‘reading’ by analogy that forces likeness through automatic and inappropriate presupposition.
• The foreign minister said he is calling a meeting Tuesday among pertinent cabinet ministers on the presupposition that the two leaders might decide to enter negotiations on concluding an agreement.
• Rawls has since tried to eliminate the universalist presuppositions from his theory.
• The treatment of presupposition is thus generalized and integrated into the discourse update procedure.
• Moreover, the sceptical argument we have been considering has its own presuppositions, which it claims to know.