Sentence examples for merely presupposes from inspiring English sources

Far from illuminating the nature of memory, then, Locke's version of the RTM merely presupposes what it sets out to explain.

Presupposition, Common Ground and Context In saying (2), Elwood would not say, but merely presuppose, that the sea is salty.

It comes in the following brief but dense passage: "Adding on value-predicates cannot tell us anything at all new about the Being of goods, but would merely presuppose again that goods have pure presence-at-hand as their kind of Being.

"Which just presupposes a very short distance".

Cantor points out that the idea of the continuum has heretofore merely been presupposed by mathematicians concerned with the analysis of continuous functions and the like, and has "not been subjected to any more thorough inspection".

That can be done, Quine seems to presuppose, merely by taking an appropriately serious attitude to the discourse in question.

But that presupposes some minimal level of insight and meaning.

This does not mean that a higher-order representation is impossible, but merely that it always presupposes the existence of a prior non-objectifying, pre-reflective self-consciousness as its condition of possibility.

But frames presuppose something beyond.

Consider that for opponents like Quine, responding that the negations of non-analytic framework propositions do not contradict meaning postulates, was merely to dress up a presupposed notion of meaning in pseudo-formal garb: while it provided what looked like formal criteria, Carnap's method did not leave the circle of intensional notions behind and so seemed to beg the question.

We would have merely formulated a riddle that falsely presupposes that the two types of agent are co-possible.