Sentence examples for presupposes not from inspiring English sources

Any discussion of legitimacy presupposes not just the ability to sense injustice but also to imagine and implement a political alternative.

Universal-historical understanding presupposes not only autobiography, biography, but also the history of nations, cultural systems, and organizations.

However, dealing with ancient texts, hermeneutic knowledge presupposes not only a general study of culture, but also a certain sensitivity to the individuality of its author.

My piece last week presupposes not only that Google has built a fully electric driverless car by 2023, but that it's actually on its third line of commercial vehicles by that point.

For instance, the worry that meaning holism entails that no one means the same thing by their words today as they did yesterday (because everyone makes at least some change to their belief each day) presupposes not just meaning holism, but also such a tight (perhaps even one-to-one) connection between meaning use (here understood in terms of belief).

And it is, most of all, a drop of water in the ocean of need of «lost territories» whose reconquest presupposes not 100, not 200, not 1000, but thousands of millions of euros, a manna, a Marshall Plan, the equivalent of what Truman's America spent to help in the reconstruction of France after the war.

"The original position," Nagel writes, "seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good, but a liberal, individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path, provided it does not interfere with the rights of others" (Nagel 1973; see also Teitelman 1972; Schwartz 1973; Sandel 1982; Benhabib 1987).

The objection is that what this framework presupposes may not be so or may eventually not be so.

There is, indeed, a plausible argument that any equivalence relation presupposes identity — not necessarily in the direct way illustrated by (R), but indirectly, nonetheless (see §6).

I say "ordinary content" instead of "broad content" here, since the subtraction strategy presupposes that not all ordinary contents are broad.

We would surely think it peculiar if someone said of a formal proof: "The reasons for the proven theorem are provided by the axioms it presupposes and not by the rules of inference enabling proof".