Sentence examples for this presupposition from inspiring English sources

Few philosophers have accepted this presupposition, however; most have regarded it as simply unbelievable.

Scientists need not apologize for presupposing the value of evidence, nor does this presupposition render science unscientific.

We typically don't even notice this presupposition.

This presupposition led to the dissociation between epistemology and psychology.

The content of this presupposition is the basic norm.

Should the critics of this argument accept this presupposition?

This indicates that in this case the presupposition is rather a pragmatic phenomenon; it is the speaker or speech act rather than the sentence or the proposition expressed that presupposes something.

Yet in this case, the presupposition charge is not as straightforward.

Since the actual, legal, chain of validity comes to an end, we inevitably reach a point where the "ought" has to be presupposed, and this is the presupposition of the basic norm.

Note that in this example the presupposition triggered by the definite NP is "inherited" by the sentence as a whole, while the one triggered by "too" is not: normally speaking, an utterance of (30) would license the inference that (according to the speaker) Fred has a son, but not that someone else besides Fred's son is gay.

This strengthens the presupposition that the patients were more free in group interviews.