Sentence examples for rather presupposes from inspiring English sources

It's no surprise an organization like Google has written at the heart of its motto, "Do no evil," which rather presupposes that most others would do the opposite in business.

SO BRITAIN, following in the wake of France, has today recognised the grandly named National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Syrian people (note the word "sole", which rather presupposes that this coalition, hastily formed a few days ago in Qatar, will indeed remain united).

The final outcome is that reference cannot be fixed solely in terms of language and abstract descriptions; it rather presupposes an immediate encounter in reality through our experience.

Hence, in this case the appeal to God's will does not provide an answer to the skeptic, but rather presupposes that we already have an answer.

It is as if I looked into my desk drawer, not allowing you to see what I was looking at, and said 'that is a fine green one.' Strawson held that utterances like these do not entail the existence of a fine green one or the present King of France, but rather presuppose their existence.

Kant writes that "[m]oral feeling succeeds the moral concept, but does not produce it; all the less can it replace it, rather it presupposes it" (NF 19 150 #6757).

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.

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.

The rather sketchy narrative presupposes a certain level of Shackleton knowledge, so a little boning up beforehand is recommended.

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