Sentence examples for * the presupposition from inspiring English sources

This alone constitutes the presupposition of love.

"I cannot accept the presupposition that I covered up a crime".

Later, in a deserted communal dressing room, Mr. Robbins amplifies that notion and casually diffuses a different one, the presupposition that he is an earnest, mirthless Hollywood liberal.

Mollica also challenges the "presupposition in modern Western society that people who commit a murder will live to regret it or that it will sicken their lives".

– Interview with Kristin Hohenadel, New York Times, 2005 "As for improvisation, I feel it's a totally overestimated practice … The presupposition of freedom and authenticity of the subject … seems to me to show an extremely naive attitude.

So ingrained is the presupposition that the man will be taller, older, richer, more successful than the woman with whom he mates that the exceptions, of which there are now many, never fail to seem noteworthy.

This is also called "the presupposition of homogeneity".

These models function under the presupposition that they are at least mathematically equivalent to hierarchical models.

This premiss is the presupposition that cause and effect exist with their own svabhāva.

The same goes for the presupposition triggered by "too" in (36b), viz.

Hence, this conditional is the presupposition Karttunen (1974) predicts for (20).