R. G. Collingwood, in similar vein, treats the task of metaphysics generally as merely uncovering the "presuppositions underlying ordinary science" (1940/1998).
The philosopher opens his presentation with a sharply negative appraisal of the presuppositions underlying the king's dream and offers a brief critical analysis to explain why he rejects each one.
The philosopher George Berkeley (1685 1753), noted both for his subjective idealist doctrine of esse est percipi and his denial of general ideas, was a persistent critic of the presuppositions underlying the mathematical practice of his day (see Jesseph [1993]).
So, while the Principia presupposes absolute time and space for purposes of conceptualizing absolute motion, the presuppositions underlying all the empirical reasoning about actual motions are philosophically more modest.
Reflective workshops can be used to raise awareness of the presuppositions underlying therapeutic community staff members' communication practices.
Furthermore, because of their better spatial resolution and/or of the different presuppositions underlying the image, morphostructural techniques, such as CT, MRI, and US, may also detect abnormalities that are not visible with a functional study [ 11].
A view of presuppositions as underlying assumptions, associated with a covert form of racism that appears to be concealed in a rational argument, when engaging in the social practice of the deliberation process in New Caledonia surrounding the independence issue seems most commendable.
The underlying presupposition of allegory is that things can come to stand for something else.
A sense of the common good which is a core of shared values is the underlying presupposition of African social morality.
This choice was based on the underlying presupposition, that the perspective of the interviewees is best revealed in stories where the informants use their spontaneous language in the narration of events [ 22, 23].
