Sentence examples for may presuppose from inspiring English sources

To be honest I don't yet know what to make of it, but at the very least, I am guessing they don't like this sort of hit because of the precedent it may presuppose for themselves.

There is no consensus on the respects in which overt language use may presuppose covert computational processes; nor is there a consensus on the utility of the teleological story, since very little is known about the adaptive value over time of any linguistic expression.

While we may presuppose that others have minds, evolution makes no such presuppositions.

Verifiable hypotheses employ conventional elements in the generalization process and may presuppose the (empirical) principle of induction.

But commonsense standards may presuppose that the speaker, her words or her thoughts exist within the hypothetical scenario.

Another problem is that guilt may presuppose that the soldier has a non-self-regarding desire for doing what he takes to be right.

If a Proposition p is in a conversation's common ground, then a speaker may felicitously presuppose p's truth.

The Epicureans may not have explicitly distinguished between sensory states and affective ones, although a similar distinction may be presupposed on some interpretations of their fragmentary literary remains; e.g., Cooper 1999a; for more references, see n. 40).

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.

Similarly, it may be unrealistic to presuppose that safety promotion can reach its potential in terms of injury rate reductions unless the critical infrastructure for this is in place.

The very phrase "applied ethics", now so familiar (and yet, one may think, tendentious), presupposes a tradition of ethical theories, such as his, that invite practical applications.