Perhaps analytical behaviorists need to paraphrase a whole swarm of mental terms at once so as to recognize the presumption that the attribution of any one such mental term presupposes the application of others (see Rey 1997, p. 154 5).
But in the case of a mind-independent property, this is only because we define the subject and conditions in terms that presuppose there are mind-independent truths about shapes (the right-hand side refers to tracking circularity).
In Whitehead's words, "The term 'many' presupposes the term 'one,' and the term 'one' presupposes the term 'many'" (Whitehead 1978, 21).
The use of the term "I" presupposes that my thoughts and perceptions are experienced as bound up together and as belonging to a single entity.
If God is outside time as we know it, then it seems He cannot forgive human beings since forgiveness, a temporal term, logically presupposes temporally prior sins.
Hard-nosed Bayesians may insist that whatever reasoning goes on in the categorical mode must eventually be justifiable in Bayesian terms, but this presupposes the existence of bridge principles connecting the epistemology of belief with the epistemology of degrees of belief and, as mentioned, whether such principles exist is presently unclear.
A consequence of this, he claimed, was that the secondary system embodied in ordinary perceptual judgments could not be a theory with respect to which the primary system was the data – the data have to be describable in terms that do not presuppose the very theory for which they are the data.
According to the presupposed source terms and real meteorological conditions, the radiation doses could also be shown as a contour format on a map within a radius of 10 kilometers for a more intuitive demand to decision-makers.
The term flower arrangement presupposes the word design.
And I think there's something slightly pejorative about the term … it presupposes – in a kind of sexist way – this idea that's ingrained in culture that women lack the imagination to write about anything other than their exact literal lives.
