Sentence examples for presupposing from inspiring English sources

Physicists do not thereby deny the existence of temperature; on the contrary, they are telling you something about it, and therefore presupposing its existence.

Presupposing an unconfined dynamics would be inconsistent with the features we are typically trying to capture.

But it might be countered that this is just a patch up: the infinite series 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + … seems to involve infinite sums and thus the performance of a supertask, and the proponent of the standard solution is in fact presupposing that supertasks are feasible just in order to justifiy that they are.

Schutz conceived statistical and other formulations of social scientific laws as a legitimate kind of intellectual shorthand, always presupposing the meaningful activity of the individual social actor, the "forgotten man" of the social sciences (Schutz 1964, 6 7).

Further argument has been offered for this principle (Boghossian 1998), yet such arguments may beg the question by presupposing a Chomskian, internalist notion of logical form.

Another, offered by Allison, rejects the objection as presupposing an overly strong interpretation of what the Deduction is intended to accomplish.

As a result, while categories have continued to play a central role in analytic philosophy in the past century, the focus has shifted to articulating particular category differences, without attempting to provide an exhaustive inventory of metaphysical categories or even presupposing that such a list is possible.

Presupposing the relative unity of an author's work, Aquinas questions the authenticity of these texts by comparing them to the existing Aristotelian corpus, thus anticipating a critical-philological procedure that would later emerge as a crucial aspect of Friedrich Schleiermacher's notion of grammatical interpretation.

(When we say that a given observation confirms or refutes a given theoretical claim, we are tacitly presupposing much theoretical knowledge).

First, by presupposing absolute impenetrability, the mathematical-mechanical mode of explanation accepts an "empty concept" at its foundation.

Of course functionalism cannot just be presupposed when attacking the zombie idea: that would be no better than presupposing behaviorism.