It's worth emphasizing, however, that the very same sentence asserted in a different conversational context could express an entirely different empirical proposition: just which proposition is expressed, on this metasemantic account, depends on what the individual parties to the conversation are currently presupposing about the meanings of the expressions used.
To cross straight into a consideration of the objectivity of the human world of action and thought spirit would be to break the developmental pattern of the logic because thought about such a complex form of objective existence will presuppose thought about simpler forms.
For instance, a male leader might presuppose things about all markets–not just female customers that are just plain wrong, says Shaz Kahng, global general manager of Nike Cycling.
This section surveys some of the options for formulating and interpreting haecceitism, but, as Skow (2008, 2011) argues, any formulation of haecceitism that employs the framework of possible worlds will tendentiously presuppose something about the nature of possibilities or possible worlds.
Informing without intruding requires tactfulness and professionalism The midwives felt that the RLP was disarming; it does not presuppose anything about the woman, but enables the midwife to provide information without intruding.
The same point applies to judgments about equal access to health care: such judgments presuppose some view about the moral importance of health care.
The text even presupposes judgments about appropriate reading material for a 14-year-old: "I'd read everything in the house about 50 million times," Ponyboy informs us, "even Darry's copy of 'The Carpetbaggers,' though he'd told me I wasn't old enough to read it.
Yet Husserl's phenomenology presupposes theory about species and individuals (universals and particulars), relations of part and whole, and ideal meanings — all parts of ontology.
However, further explication of the approach quickly leads to clarification of the relationist commitments of the theory, for can one in fact state dynamical laws, or understand them as "holding" or "governing", without presupposing [facts about] space-time structure?
It is not always rational or even possible to refrain from action, and yet action presupposes beliefs about the way things are (For a good interpretation and defense of this view of Kant on the relation between action and belief, see Wood 1970 , 17 25.
