Sentence examples for false presupposition from inspiring English sources

(3) Presuppositional fallaciousness occurs in those cases where an argument depends on a false presupposition; this kind of fallaciousness is demonstrated by making a sound argument showing the presupposition to be false.

Our main question, "Where, ontologically, is the green thing?," thus has a false presupposition and there is no problem.

The pretense will be rational if accepting the false presupposition is an efficient way to communicate something true" (Stalnaker 2002, 718).

Their idea is that the false presupposition is added to the evaluator's set of beliefs and is tested against that set of beliefs.

In reality, rabbits are more closely related to humans than they are to bats (Nishihara et al. 2006), so framing the question this way embeds a false presupposition.

Likewise the questions about the arhat and the like all share the false presupposition that there is such a thing as a person who might either continue to exist after death, cease to exist at death, etc.

There is also judgment, and sometimes intelligent people can go wildly off course because they reason on the basis of false presuppositions, and our assumptions involve the moral and spiritual side of our nature, not just our capacity for consistent thought.

Patient questions are not answered due to a high degree of specificity, false presuppositions, and layman use of medical terminology (Crangle and Kart 2015; MacCray et al. 1999).

What happens when a presupposition is false?

Since this presupposition is false, the statement is out of place, and should be withdrawn.

In Invert's and Nonvert's community, that presupposition is false, and so it should not be surprising if the attempt to introduce '\(Q_{R}\)' into their public language fails.