In order to appreciate one version of their argument for minima naturalia (Avicenna 2009, III.12, 8), one must first consider the theory of the elements and elemental change, which it presupposes.
So "non-linguistic" art is really doubly dependent on thought and language: not only for the thoughts which it expresses but also for those which it presupposes in perception.
But the system isn't user-friendly, and it presupposes ready Internet access, which about 35 percent of all Americans and 65 percent of low-income Americans do not have.
An ideal object can represent a possible different state of the person contemplating it, which presupposes, in addition to the ability to represent possible future states, a degree of self-awareness.
For Descartes, this move is unproblematic: thought is an attribute, and thus presupposes a substance in which it inheres.
It is also impressive, not merely as an act of impersonation but perhaps above all for the fiendish diligence with which it is carried out...presuppose(s) formidable research on the part of the author, who is American, educated in France and writing fluent, idiomatic and purposeful French.
Primary substance differs from the other components of a macro-object because of its peculiar mode of being as an autonomous and independently existing object — in contrast with the other categorial items, which necessarily presuppose it for their existence (EP, ch. de substantia, fol. 22ra-b).
In his view the special sciences presuppose physics, which presupposes geometry, which in turn presupposes arithmetic.
Unlike Schubert's symphony, which clearly presupposes more music to come, the Bruckner, as it exists, can be viewed as a well balanced whole, in which its short yet insistently aggressive, even violent Scherzo is framed by two grandly paced movements in which the word "feierlich" (solemn or ceremonial) is prominent among Bruckner's performance instructions.
It's no surprise an organization like Google has written at the heart of its motto, "Do no evil," which rather presupposes that most others would do the opposite in business.
It is not meditation or reverie, which presupposes a conscious mind relaxing; it is something deeper, a fathomless repose of the will which does not even pose to itself the question: 'Am I happy or unhappy?' " Mr. Tahir, who sometimes used the last name Girneli, meaning from Girne, was born there on Oct. 27, 1923.
