Sentence examples for would presuppose from inspiring English sources

Initial analogical reasoning based on 'surface similarity' would presuppose a classic control engineering 'source model' consisting of a phase-lag feedback system for which it is difficult to derive the transfer function.

Also, we did not observe attempts of the animals to swim against the suction streams, which again would presuppose a processing and orientation of the body opposite to the torrent Utricularia produces.

Sub-Lacanian theory would presuppose that the signified "Baudrillard" is merely a neo-modernist capitalist paradox and "death" is a sub-textual patriarchalist paradigm interpolated through a post-colonialist hermeneutic.As such, as Sontag states, "society is dead"; the signifier is merely replicated as a series of pre-cultural totalities implying post-Foucaultian absurdity.

But these disagreements would presuppose substantial agreements in other respects.

In saying (4) Elwood would presuppose that Bush invaded Iraq, and in (5) he would presuppose that Clinton had cheated on his wife, and then stopped doing so for a period of time (possibly rather short).

In saying (3) he would presuppose, but not say, that someone led America to defeat in the War of 1812.

I'd presupposed she was there to seduce me, and that it was inevitable I'd acquiesce.

It would not presuppose presuppose an idea of meaning, and would use such ideas as definition or convention only in ways which are justified by the most literal sense of those terms.

Though the success of such theories depends on the details, they cannot be dismissed on the ground of parsimony, since moral truths would not presuppose properties of a special or non-natural kind.

Block argues that any attempt to keep "weighs less than three ounces if it's a fish" out of the inferential role of "pet" would already presuppose the denial of holism, so the compositionality argument isn't an independent argument against holism since it already presupposes its denial.

It comes in the following brief but dense passage: "Adding on value-predicates cannot tell us anything at all new about the Being of goods, but would merely presuppose again that goods have pure presence-at-hand as their kind of Being.