Sentence examples for Presuppositions from inspiring English sources

This alternative assumption raises the gains from free trade in goods by $174 billion (or thereabouts).These rival assumptions are not right or wrong, but they illustrate how far the results of CGE models flow from the presuppositions of their authors.

Perhaps the blame goes to Adam Smith for titling his great book "The Wealth of Nations" instead of just "The Wealth of People", but the great Scot is to a large degree responsible for undermining the mercantilist fallacies that are reflected in the nationalist presuppositions of most economic analysis.

Two years later, at a conference at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he laid the foundations of his reputation in America with a bold new way to approach literary texts and lay bare their ideological presuppositions.

It follows that (20) has no presuppositions.

We say that the presuppositions are projected.

Such presuppositions would make inductive logic enthymematic.

What makes presuppositions special?

First, presuppositions are ubiquitous.

The philosopher opens his presentation with a sharply negative appraisal of the presuppositions underlying the king's dream and offers a brief critical analysis to explain why he rejects each one.

But Kamp's claim of the necessity of representations might be thought especially relevant to treatment of presuppositions outlined in §5.2, since this treatment involves particularly complex manipulations of DRSs.

And, even when translated into a formal language, such as the language of first-order predicate logic, different ontological standpoints may disagree as to the existential presuppositions of the theory.