It's that I've seen great decency among people who may, nevertheless, have some presuppositions or biases about African-Americans or Latinos or women or gays.
The theory of knowledge cannot begin without some presuppositions, in particular, that there are true thoughts in which a subject successfully grasps an object.
Now, some presuppositions about ethnic groups and nations are essential for the nationalist, while others are theoretical elaborations designed to support the essential ones.
The intuition behind the filter metaphor is that these constructions allow only some presuppositions to project, and we have already seen examples of this phenomenon.
Karttunen concluded that the consequent of a conditional acts as a hole to some presuppositions, but filters out all those presuppositions which are entailed by the antecedent, or, more generally, by a combination of the antecedent and contextually supplied background information.
It should be added that what goes for logical consequence also goes for entailment more generally, e.g., in some cases of presupposition.
Under such a presupposition, some influential marriage theories have come into being, of which Becker's marriage theory "gains to trade" and Easterlin's "relative income hypothesis" are two that have been influential.
Near-side pragmatics includes, but is not limited to resolution of ambiguity and vagueness, the reference of proper names, indexicals and demonstratives, and anaphors, and at least some issues involving presupposition.
So at least some philosophers would question the presupposition that there is some determinate number of speckles characterizing the visual experience.
This seemingly trivial claim suffers from another problem in any case since the idea that only women can know the experience of other women depends on a presupposition of some sameness of women's experience a presupposition that is blatantly false.
