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Stalnaker uses a possible worlds framework, and characterizes the common ground as a set of possible worlds (the worlds where all that is presupposed is true), the context set.
I take this to mean that unlike scientific truth, law presupposes a social context and a sense of shame.
This way of representing possible contexts presupposes that the agent exists at the designated time.
In this latter case, it may be that God is manifest not so much as a particular item in our perceptual field, but instead as the meaning that is presupposed in our making sense of a material context, rather as "mineness" on Kohák's account is the meaning that is presupposed in our making sense of the order presented by the forest.
In this context we presuppose the categories of empirical or physical induction and of differential equations as necessary preconditions for doing science.
So even if φ is not presupposed initially, it will be presupposed by the time she gets to assert ψ, for now the context has shifted to encompass φ.
The old notion of a 'geodesic path' had its inception in the context of classical metrical geometry and 'geodesicity' was characterized in terms of extremal paths of curves, which presupposed a metric.
Its popularity is presupposed.
Pleasure presupposed fixity, convenience, the managed view.
Knowledge of calculus is not presupposed.
No prior background in philosophy presupposed.
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