There can be no question that Kant wants to distinguish genuinely aesthetic experience from merely physiological gratification of the senses, from the approval of utility, or from moral approval, and that he does this by saying that aesthetic judgment neither presupposes nor gives rise to any interest in the existence of its object.
Intuitively, the existence neither of gold nor of the tiger presupposes that of something else in which these things 'inhere'inhere
Reid does not deny that memory is itself a current mental state, nor does he deny that memory presupposes a past apprehension.
To be noted is that, as Jardine (2005, p. 137) has pointed out, the modern scientific realist departs from a real independent world, while Kepler's notion of truth presupposes that neither nature nor the human mind are independent of God's mind (Jardine 2005, p. 137).
Unlike conventional reality, it is neither presupposed nor projected by ignorance.
Neutrality is the requirement that scientific theories neither presuppose nor support any non-epistemic (moral, political, social, or cultural) values.
As argued in Green 2000, in an assertion of 'I (hereby) assert that p', a speaker commits herself to p even though her words do not logically entail that Proposition; nor do they presuppose, or either conversationally or conventionally imply it.
While I had serious reservations for the policies and pronouncements of the last Administration, I never could nor would have presupposed or suggested that there was a lack of concern or patriotism which motivated their misguided prescriptions.
Neither good theoretical reasoning nor good practical reasoning moves in a circle; true thinking always presupposes and progresses in linear fashion from proper starting points.
