Sentence examples for presupposed like from inspiring English sources

The painted window of perspective presupposed, like its architectural counterpart, a bounded survey; land refashioned as park.

But even if there is no absolute standard, something truth-like is presupposed and so we will not be prevented from having anything definite in our thought.

Peter Byrne (2013 , 1998 has criticized practical arguments on the grounds that they presuppose something like the following proposition: "The world is likely to be organized so as to meet our deepest human needs".

Of course, these results presuppose something like a uniform distribution of sampling effort across taxa, which is more likely to be found in genomic data sets than database mining studies.

However, as has been noted many times, the notion of "nonaction" or wuwei does not denote literal inaction but presupposes something like the possibility of an unforced acting with the grain of things, and that presupposes that it is possible to become attuned to that grain while in a state of awareness that is not cluttered by distorting conceptual oppositions.

It has been said that the Greeks thought of the world as a vast animal (indeed, the conceptual scheme that Aristotle devised for dealing with nature makes sense only if something like this is presupposed).

It is clear that much of Bradley's criticism of his predecessors and contemporaries expresses his hostility to the sort of psychological atomism evident in extreme form in Hume but equally to be found presupposed in accounts of judgment like those mentioned above.

Contingencies like shoplifting are presupposed and neutralized in advance by insurance policies.

They are rather more like Kantian categories that are presupposed and implicit in ordinary judgments.

Although OD is not completely uncontestable[8] it is plausible, and like RE, has been pervasively presupposed in work on deontic logic.

It can be presupposed that voluntary sustainability standards and similar measures, like eco-labels, should play an important role in addressing the issues that obligatory sustainability criteria are not able to deal with efficiently.