Sentence examples for presupposes rather than from inspiring English sources

As before, Locke's account presupposes rather than explains the phenomenon of memory (Essays, 285).

But then the ability to paint ideas anew upon itself presupposes rather than explains memory.

In an intuitive sense, the statement presupposes rather than asserts that there is a unique king of France.

But this meant that their love presupposed, rather than explained, piety and justice.

The idea behind this criticism is that such intentions presuppose rather than constitute collective intentionality (cf. Schmid 2005; Petersson 2007).

The satisfaction conditions are presupposed here rather than explained causally.

As for the tone of the materials, they are meant to be "nonjudgmental," Mr. Vladeck said, rather than presupposing there is nefarious purpose inherent in ads and that marketers continuously try to trick consumers into buying things they do not want or need.

That view which involves down-dating Theopompus and Polydorus to the 7th century from the 8th and still more arbitrarily attributing to them the activity presupposed by the Rhetra rather than the rider does too much violence to the best chronological evidence (that of Thucydides and Herodotus), and a view in terms of 8th-century political synoecism should be preferred.

Unbounded doubt interpretations, in particular, can avoid the charge, because they have the mediator discovering the circumstances under which some perceptions resist doubt, rather than presupposing them.

This exhorts speakers to assert content rather than presupposing it, but, because of interactions with other maxims, only forces them to do so when such an assertion would not yield redundancy.

We discuss presupposition, the phenomenon whereby speakers mark linguistically the information that is presupposed or taken for granted, rather than being part of the main propositional content of a speech act.