In relation to scientific accounts of the natural world, such enquiries into causes make abundant sense and are perhaps even essential presuppositions of the natural sciences.
Since habitudinal predication does not require any kind of identity between the entity signified by the subject-term and the entity signified by the predicate-term, but formal predication and essential predication do, the ontological presuppositions of the most general type of predication, implied by the other types, are completely different from those of the other two.
However, Zeevat (1989b) shows that essential aspects of this theory of presupposition can be captured using a model-theoretic information state rather than syntactic representations, albeit that the notion of information state becomes highly structured as a result.
In the moral order, it is essential that one uncover the starting point, the latent presupposition of any action, clarify it and proceed from there.
Now, some presuppositions about ethnic groups and nations are essential for the nationalist, while others are theoretical elaborations designed to support the essential ones.
Other times, he suggests that these ideas are deeply essential to the project of knowledge acquisition, and that their presupposition is utterly necessary if we are to acquire knowledge.
Questioning entrenched presuppositions, adapting to challenging conditions, and becoming conscious of global human interdependence are all essential educational dimensions of ISLTs.
The presupposition is fantastical.
Presupposition and Implicature: Laurence R. Horn.
Presupposition (D.I. Beaver).
This alone constitutes the presupposition of love.
