Sentence examples for presupposed at from inspiring English sources

Kant, he noted, had argued that:the entire practice of lending money presupposed at least the honest intention to repay.

What is presupposed at a given stage has an effect on the interpretation of new utterances made at that stage.

(This non-factive conception is explicit at Tractatus 1.2 1.21, and presupposed at 2.1; see Johnston 2013: 382).

Furthermore, participation in SPI processes presupposes at least a certain degree of empowerment already, at least in the sense that there is some form of organization and the potential for representation which would enable participation.

The latter view presupposes at least some measure of commensurability.

If so, does not his account of institutional facts presuppose at the very least an unexplained social form (convention) and perhaps one that is part and parcel of institutions and, thereby, renders his account to some degree circular?

He claims that modes presuppose attributes (AT VIIIA 25; CSM I 210); and, in Article 52, he claims that attributes presuppose an existing substance (AT VIIIA 25; CSM I 210).

The second sentence presupposes that at present or at some recent time it is or was essential to master a language in order to do business in Asia, to treat patients in Africa, or to resolve the situation in the Middle East.

Thucydides' subsequent narrative of the Peloponnesian War, however, presupposes it at a number of points, especially in the context of Greek dealings with Persia in 411.

Stalnaker seems to presuppose that at least this mathematical hard core of the theory of probability is fixed and that it can be used profitably in order to study the semantics of conditionals.

For example, also in 27 asserts that the focused property met Mary applies to the subject Jenny (i.e., Jenney has the property of meeting Mary) and presupposes that at least one alternative property, such as met Bill, is possessed by Jenny.