Sentence examples for presupposes a kind from inspiring English sources

It presupposes a kind of calculated effort to extract a specific emotion out of the reader and that's not the way I work.

Bestowal thus presupposes a kind of appraisal, as a way of "really seeing" the beloved and attending to him.

And, of course, it also presupposes a kind of comprehension principle that guarantees the (abstract) existence of these conceptual objects determined by its properties.

Our understanding of the world presupposes a kind of pragmatic know-how that is revealed through the way in which we, without theoretical considerations, orient ourselves in the world.

Indeed, to claim, as Popper does, that an experimental arrangement has a tendency to produce a given limiting relative frequency of a particular outcome, presupposes a kind of stability or uniformity in the workings of that arrangement (for the limit would not exist in a suitably unstable arrangement).

The Mohists presuppose a kind of communitarian system in which the fundamental concern is the interests of society as a whole, specifically social order (zhi), economic wealth, and a large population.

Stumpf argues rather that Kant's synthetic judgments presuppose a kind of "mental machinery" (Stumpf, 2008, Bogen 16 3) in order to account for their formation, as they involve numerous assumptions, notably the a priori forms of sensibility, intuition, and the Denkformen, which Stumpf takes to be mere constructions.

Perhaps she thinks that for something to be morally bad would imply or presuppose a kind of inescapable, authoritative imperative against pursuing that thing, while thinking that in fact the universe supplies no such imperatives (Mackie 1977; Joyce 2001; Olson 2011, 2014).

And I think there's something slightly pejorative about the term … it presupposes – in a kind of sexist way – this idea that's ingrained in culture that women lack the imagination to write about anything other than their exact literal lives.

In 1933, Lorca could have been speaking for all three of them when he wrote, in "Theory and Play of the Duende," "The arrival of the duende presupposes a radical change to all the old kinds of form, brings totally unknown and fresh sensations, with the qualities of a newly created rose, miraculous, generating an almost religious enthusiasm".

Of course, that kind of legal reform presupposes a measure of democracy and good government, something much of the developing world doesn't have.