Sentence examples for presupposed- from inspiring English sources

In the first place, Gibbon said, the Romans had carried with them into slavery the culture of a free people: their language and their conception of themselves as human beings presupposed freedom.

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

In trying to justify presupposed contentions, your articles gave credence to one book about the king written by an American journalist.

Ethernet never presupposed what sort of medium the data would travel over, be it coaxial cable or radio waves (hence the term "ether" to describe some undefined path).

But that clashed with NATO enlargement, which presupposed that Russia was a threat.

Knowledge of calculus is not presupposed.

Its authority, says Kelsen, is "presupposed".

No ability to recognize kin is presupposed.

The conditions obtaining in the lamp problem only enable us to conclude that the lamp will be either dim or else lit but not both at t* = 1 P.M., and this follows from the fact that this exclusive disjunction was presupposed from the start to be true at each and every instant of time, independently of the way in which we could act on the lamp in the t-series of instants of time.

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

Hume (1993) attacks both the view of causation presupposed in the argument (that causation is an objective, productive, necessary relation experienced as power that holds between two things) and the Causal Principle every contingent being has a cause of its being that lies at the heart of the argument.