That poetry not only presupposes the other forms of human mental activity but is presupposed by them, is proved by the fact that without the poetic imagination which gives contemplative form to the workings of feeling, intuitive expression to obscure impressions, and thus becomes representations and words, whether spoken or sung or painted or otherwise uttered, logical thought could not arise.
Heidegger says it seems Kant had give-up on the notion of Cartesian dualism, only to presuppose it again.
The worry is that, in the final analysis, constructivism is vacuous because "its test yields results only by presupposing moral views which can only be established independently of it" (Raz 2003, 358; Timmons 2003).
Dealing with pain as the only outcome presupposes that analgesic intake is fixed at a strictly defined uniform level, which must, however, be low enough to allow some degree of pain.
"Which just presupposes a very short distance".
Furthermore, although there may be no bedrock language of uncontaminated observation to which they can retreat, they have available to them forms of description that presuppose only shared commonsense ideas about objects in the vicinity.
To accomplish these goals, we presuppose only a familiarity with the first-order predicate calculus.
Moreover, international institutions presuppose only nation-states, and the latter might be conceived of in narrowly political terms.
So a moral rule can be justified by showing that it rules out only choices that presuppose something false about the basic goods.
So the rule forbidding intentional destruction of an instance of a basic good is justified because it rules out only choices that presuppose something false about the nature of the basic goods.
