Although this possibility cannot be dismissed entirely, it does presuppose a social or cognitive mechanism capable of maintaining strong conformism over thousands of generations in pre-literate societies.
For example, number theory per se presupposes the existence of numbers, and perhaps numerical functions and numerical properties, but it does not presuppose the existence of mathematical notation and it a fortiori does not presuppose the existence of the vast, intricate notational system that we call the language of number theory.
The problem with this line of argument, I think, is that even if it doesn't presuppose motive on the part of Band Aid's organisers, it narrows down Band Aid down to being a phenomenon controlled by them: here comes the leader to dispense his paternalistic solution from on high.
It does not presuppose the kind of 'homogeneity' or thick collective identity that is widely held to be needed for comprehensive resource allocation, redistribution and goal attainment.
How can one conceive a new, advanced image of man if it does not presuppose the fact that death should be understood as merely an unpleasant affair that needs to be eliminated?
Following Sydney Shoemaker (1970) and Derek Parfit (1984), one can introduce a more inclusive memory relation, called quasi-memory, or q-memory, defined so that it does not presuppose identity.
Husserl starts (again, from a first-person viewpoint) from a "solipsistic" abstraction of the notion of a spatio-temporal object which differs from that notion in that it does not presuppose that any other subject can observe such an object from his (or her) own perspective.
It does not presuppose that AI is conscious - that is the question.
Informing without intruding requires tactfulness and professionalism The midwives felt that the RLP was disarming; it does not presuppose anything about the woman, but enables the midwife to provide information without intruding.
