Sentence examples for presupposed because from inspiring English sources

In this characterization of Bayesian statistical inference the probability of the data $P s)$ is not presupposed, because it can be computed from the prior and the likelihoods by the law of total probability, \[ P s) \; = \; \sum_{\theta \in \Theta} P(h_{\theta}) P(s \mid h_{\theta}).

(Much less do they presuppose this because of a divine guarantee).

But for Brouwer logic always presupposes mathematics, because in his view it is, like any exact thought, an application of mathematics.

It presupposes representationalism because it assumes that we are immediately confronted with mind-dependent ideas and then raises the question of whether we can use them to conceive of unconceived, mind-independent objects.

For all Mr. Tremonti's foresight, "the budget was wrong because it presupposed growth," said Pier Luigi Bersani, the shadow finance minister for the Democrats.

Didn't you know that buying her something was an act of hubris, because it presupposed that she would stay around long enough to use up the perfume?

The first satisfactory justification of the Pythagorean form of the Riemannian metric, although limited in scope because it presupposed the full homogeneity of Euclidean space, was provided by the investigations of Hermann von Helmholtz.

For Hume the "science of man" is the "foundational" science because it is presupposed to some degree by all the other sciences.

The validity of sense-perception is not susceptible of proof, because it is presupposed by all proof, since proof just is a matter of adducing sensory evidence.

On this interpretation, Aristotle would be arguing that the world conforms to PNC, or that PNC is true, because it is presupposed by and explains the opponent's ability to say something significant.

Accommodation is further discussed in Stalnaker (2002), where it is stressed, among other things, that it works, when it works, because of what is already presupposed.