Sentence examples for presupposes i from inspiring English sources

How do you stay in shape? A. That presupposes I was in shape before I left!

But this presupposes, I believe, that the parents and educators already themselves have acquired such a strict sense of conscientiousness, whereas it is not clear in the first place that or how Hume's theory allows this to happen.

A why-question, according to van Fraassen (1980, 144 145) presupposes (i) that its topic is true, (ii) that, in its contrast class, only its topic is true, and (iii) that at least one proposition bearing the explanatory relevance relation to the topic/contrast-class pair is true.

In any case, what has always been troubling about Moore's view is that the coherent picture that emerges seems to presuppose (i) the existence of metaphysically dubious properties that fall outside the causal nexus and, so, are such that (ii) it would be a complete mystery how we could every reliably learn anything about them, if they were to exist.

I think that the notion presupposes longevity: I won't be including some marvelous books that were published in the last few years, because their impact on me remains to be determined (sometimes you know you've been hit hard, but sometimes you have to look back to find out how far you've been propelled).

There is no "problem" is presupposing it, I agree.

The use of the term "I" presupposes that my thoughts and perceptions are experienced as bound up together and as belonging to a single entity.

When used to explicate the claim that we can cause harm to a person by bringing that person into existence, (I) presupposes assumption (a).

Start, then, with Butler's complaint that memory presupposes identity, that I can remember only my own experiences, so memory just reveals to me my identity relation to some past experiencer and cannot constitute that relation.

She argues that conscience is not an immediate source of moral knowledge, as Burnet would have it, but a source of moral affection or feeling that complements, and presupposes, a proper (i.e., rational) knowledge of moral laws.

The term cause in sense I presupposes explanations that appeal to the notion of a practical argument in which the premises function not as antecedent conditions of the action, but as their logical ground.