Philosophers often make or presuppose empirical claims about how people would react to hypothetical cases, but their evidence for claims about what 'we' would say is usually very limited indeed.
necessarily or most appropriately tackles the related matters just listed, and accordingly (b) by the incompleteness of their theories of law, that is, the absence from them (and usually, though not always, from their accounts of those related matters) of systematic critical attention to the foundations of the moral and other normative claims that they make or presuppose.
Of course, shared decision-making presupposes an understanding of the benefits and risks on the part of patients.
Contact, to work, presupposes equality of status.
Hence, immediate and essential gravitation "cannot be straightforwardly obtained from our experience of matter and its motions – by some sort of inductive argument, say" – because universal gravitation is "necessarily presupposed in making an objective experience of matter and its motions possible in the first place" (pp. 157 158).
Tolerance can only be a virtue if this distinction can be made, and it presupposes that the limits of toleration can be drawn in a non-arbitrary, justifiable way.
In this latter case, it may be that God is manifest not so much as a particular item in our perceptual field, but instead as the meaning that is presupposed in our making sense of a material context, rather as "mineness" on Kohák's account is the meaning that is presupposed in our making sense of the order presented by the forest.
While early, nonphilosophical feminist science criticism by working scientists may have presupposed a naive version of empiricism, attempts by feminist epistemologists to make sense of feminist science criticism have, following Quine, incorporated explicitly pragmatist and naturalizing themes into feminist empiricism.
The Learning Instance is instantiated through input from the Physical Environment, and through other contextual influence factors, e.g., a teacher defines a task, set up an event, define goals, etc.; and the teacher make interventions that presuppose the use of digital devices.
I will be discussing quantum consciousness and the mind-body connection, making the case that any debate already presupposes the primacy of consciousness of the debater.
Mr. Brooks's statement sets up a false choice, presupposing a black-white dichotomy, making it exceptionally easy to doom to failure whichever unlucky elected official you choose.
