Hook's analysis of the metaphysics of pragmatism explored the issue of whether the practice of scientific method presupposed a set of beliefs about the world or any set of ontological commitments.
Decades later, after the great emphasis ascribed to the nature of Being in existentialist metaphysics, Hook returned to an analysis of this issue in his essay "The Quest for 'Being.'" He reaffirmed his earlier view that the practice of scientific method did not presuppose a set of ontological commitments or metaphysical theses about the world.
In contrast with thin theism, "thick" theism presupposes a richer set of attributes, such as infinity, omniscience, omnipotence, and moral perfection.
Asserting an absence of carcinogenicity, either overall or in breast tissue specifically, presupposes a complete set of test data evaluating all end points relevant to both cancer in general, and breast cancer in particular.
The main disputes in the literature about the definition of omniscience have focused on the scope of the quantifier in (D1), whether, for example, it includes propositions about the future, whether (D1) requires an omniscient being to change as time goes by, whether it requires enough for maximal knowledge, and whether it (falsely) presupposes that there is a set of all truths.
This is presupposing a lot, if you read that last word of the last sentence again.
PhD programs presuppose a lot of knowledge and motivation.
Microarrays are a sophisticated method for both hypothesis building and hypothesis testing within the same experimental setup due to the vast amount and large scale of obtained data without limitation to a set of presupposed genes or regulatory pathways.
When we formulate this definition, we appear to presuppose that any property of rational numbers determines a set containing just those rational numbers that have that property.
A set of abnormalities is a set of formulas that are presupposed as not holding (or as absurd) at the beginning of reasoning until they are shown to be otherwise.
