Sentence examples for true presupposes from inspiring English sources

The Cartesian Benedictine Robert Desgabets (1610 1678) replied to Foucher by insisting that the Cartesian rule that clear and distinct ideas are true presupposes that our thoughts correspond to real external objects.

There are many orderings and sub-orderings, and there are therefore different kinds or levels of peace, and (for beings capable of moral choice) different kinds or levels of virtue, justice and happiness.[14] True virtue presupposes obedience to the true God.

Although this may be true, it presupposes that we already have a grasp on the sense in which properties belong to objects and how this differs from the various ways that objects belong to or can be attributed to things, and that we can call upon this informal understanding in interpreting the theoretical account.

Neither good theoretical reasoning nor good practical reasoning moves in a circle; true thinking always presupposes and progresses in linear fashion from proper starting points.

In fact, the very idea of "nature" — implying something exterior to humanity and human culture — may be inimical to true ecological thinking, which presupposes the interconnectedness of all things.

A sophisticated contemporary development of expressivism and projectivism, defended by the English philosopher Simon Blackburn and others under the title "quasi-realism," seeks to explain how one can properly treat ethical propositions as true or false without presupposing a special domain of nonnatural facts.

On this interpretation, Aristotle would be arguing that the world conforms to PNC, or that PNC is true, because it is presupposed by and explains the opponent's ability to say something significant.

Stalnaker uses a possible worlds framework, and characterizes the common ground as a set of possible worlds (the worlds where all that is presupposed is true), the context set.

Can the proofs advanced themselves be proven, or do they presuppose as true the very thing the speaker is trying to prove?

In addition to burden of proof arguments against the Way of Ideas and the representational theory of perception, Reid also deploys a number of detailed arguments against specific components of these theories and against commitments they presuppose to be true.

On the other hand, if one thinks the body is real, it disposes of the mind in the same way, favoring materialism as true and real, which is presupposed, for example, by natural science.