Sentence examples for form presupposes from inspiring English sources

Thomas shares Avicenna's conviction that every form presupposes a certain material disposition, which is the mean quality characteristic of the compound.

Questions of this form presuppose that we already know what 'to exist' means.

The method approach presupposes less of substance about morality than the master rule approach presupposes.

Parfit's distinction between agent-relative and agent-neutral theories of course presupposes that we should think about morality in terms of normative theories, which also contradicts many forms of particularism.

This of course presupposes consumer demand.

The abbreviated syllogism appears to be part of a truncated argument that is based on an assumption that Caledonian and French citizenship are the same categories, which constitutes a form of presupposed knowledge with which not everyone in New Caledonia agrees, as there may be some people who do not homogenise national identity like Gomès does.

Shape, recall, presupposes extension.

As unpleasant as it sounds, rentism still contains a kernel of utopia, because it presupposes a form of abundant clean energy.

Sober then notes that multiple realizability presupposes some form of asymmetric determination: the lower level physical properties present at a given time determine the higher level properties present.

It argues that the Form of a triangle presupposes the existence of a Form of a line, and adds that this ideal line cannot have parts, presumably because parts are taken to be prior to the whole they compose and Forms need to have a kind of primacy to be explanatory.

As such it is open to the charge that moral deontology presupposes institutional forms.