Sentence examples for presupposes understanding from inspiring English sources

Quine argued that the notion of analyticity presupposes the notion of synonymy-in-use, which in turn presupposes understanding inter-substitutability-while-preserving-truth.

The usual charge against it by non-Buddhist critics, like Kumārila and Uddyotakara, is circularity: if an understanding of blue is to be analyzed as an understanding of non-non-blue and any negation presupposes understanding the negandum, then understanding what non-non-blue is would depend on understanding blue we go round in circles.

Through their work, we can see how migrants transform geographic and cultural boundaries, how such 'travels' potentially change and challenge presupposed understandings of identity.

The flaw in this otherwise interesting novel is that its title, mimicking Edith Wharton's own title, "The Age of Innocence," presupposes an understanding not just of these personal lives but of the times in which they were lived.

International collaboration presupposes some understanding of how others' thinking differs from ours.

The analysis of inferential justification presupposes an understanding of justified belief.

Our analysis of instrumental goodness presupposes an understanding of what it is for something to be good.

The hermeneutical contest was keen, but there was a shared assumption that any blueprint for lasting peace and order presupposes an understanding of the Dao, which as the Laozi discloses, signifies the creative beginning and teleological end of all things (e.g., Chapters 1, 16 and 25).

Of course, shared decision-making presupposes an understanding of the benefits and risks on the part of patients.

Successful development of such approaches, however, presupposes an understanding of the species at the genetic, molecular and population level.

Philosophy presupposes interpretive tools for understanding our everyday lives; feminist work in articulating additional dimensions of experience and aspects of our practices is invaluable in demonstrating the bias in existing tools, and in the search for better ones.