Sentence examples for or presupposes from inspiring English sources

If Hume is right, every valid argument for an evaluative conclusion either includes or presupposes some evaluative premise.

The idea is to consider the dynamical laws as regularities that systematize and describe the patterns of events concerning an underlying ontology/ideology that involves or presupposes only very limited spatiotemporal features.

The issue about whether the content of perceptual experience is singular or general is not simply about whether the existence of the experience entails or presupposes the existence of its object.

If he can provide a genealogy of moral beliefs a genealogy that nowhere implies or presupposes that the beliefs in question are true if, moreover, this genealogy can receive some empirical confirmation (for it will, after all, be an a posteriori matter)—then he will have discharged whatever ex ante burden he may have faced.

However, we tend to be more sympathetic with those near and dear to us, and moral judgment seeks or presupposes some sort of impartiality regarding those affected by or engaging in actions (it is no more wrong for someone to kill a member of my family than for someone to kill someone I don't know).

Scientists, for example, sometimes produce or presuppose philosophical theories that affect how they conduct their research which, therefore, may be a fitting subject for philosophical therapeutics.

Why not make it illegal to presuppose that a nonparent is free to work the night shift or presuppose that nonparents are more able to work on Christmas than parents?" Which brings us to the workplace, which promises to be the bloodiest beachhead in the brewing war between parents and nonparents.

By far the most important of these propositions are those that express or presuppose causal relations e.g., "Fire causes heat" and "A moving billiard ball communicates its motion to any stationary ball it strikes".

The specification of purpose is what stabilizes a text and a text's purpose is not self-evident; you can't simply extract it from the text, and without its having been assumed or presupposed, the text will not settle down.

Kelsen was strongly influenced by Neo-Kantian tendencies in German-speaking philosophy in the early 20th century and was accordingly attracted to the "transcendental" strategy of argument that Immanuel Kant (1724 1804) made famous: given the existence of some undisputed phenomenon, one is entitled to infer or presuppose the existence of whatever is needed to explain it.

Indeed, this definition is one that is frequently employed (or presupposed) in discussions of pornography and censorship.