Sentence examples for shared presupposition from inspiring English sources

The supposedly shared presupposition is the possibility of mysteriuosly cultivating an infallible or superhuman intuitive guidance system.

A sign of this shortcoming is to be seen in the shared presupposition of Plato and Aristotle that matter is unoriginated.

On the metasemantic account of assertion, the content conveyed by a sentence depends on the shared presuppositions of the speaker and audience.

In making an assertion, the speaker tries to get the audience to accept a new proposition as one of their shared presuppositions, thereby shrinking the set of possible worlds that are considered live options.

Both stances share the presupposition, which is in no way self-evident, that a defense of one's own way of life excludes ethical universalism.

A second guiding idea is that the proposition actually conveyed by the assertion of a particular sentence depends on presuppositions shared by the participants in the conversation including presuppositions about what particular words represent and presuppositions about actual empirical circumstances.

A sense of the common good which is a core of shared values is the underlying presupposition of African social morality.

In setting that earlier project aside, Habermas adopts a more naturalistic, "postmetaphysical" approach (1992a), characterized by the fallible hermeneutic explication or "reconstruction" of shared competences and normative presuppositions that allow actors to engage in familiar practices of communication, discourse, and inquiry.

In the ordinary case, the presupposition would be shared by the conversational participants, but not everyone would already know, or believe, what Elwood says about her.

The presuppositions that are shared are the common ground, which is an important part of the context of an utterance.

What a phenomenological interviewer attempts to do is to suspend the standard presuppositions of the shared, commonsense world, the unquestioned, commonsense background with its assumptions about time, space, causality, and self-identity, and about what does and does not exist as "real".