Each of these characteristics distinguishes orality, secondary or otherwise, from written modes of communication, according to Ong, as writing presupposes the separation of message-sender from message-receiver in both time and space, making it less present- and less presence-oriented than spoken communication, which is rooted in the temporal and spatial togetherness of face-to-face interaction.
In the latter case, he is contradicting himself, since the very idea of writing presupposes the freedom of the reader, and that means, in principle, the whole of the reading public.
Mr. Klinkenborg is worried about the "technical narrowness" of some college programs and the "rush to make education pay off"– which, he writes, "presupposes that only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring".
In his 1977, p. 17, Chisholm writes: "We presuppose … that the things we know are justified for us in the following sense: we can know what it is, on any occasion, that constitutes our grounds, or reason, or evidence for thinking that we know".
In speaking and writing about art, critics presuppose that they are dealing with clear concepts, the attainment of which is the task of the philosopher of art.
In speaking and writing about art, the critic presupposes that he is dealing with clear concepts, the attainment of which is the task of the philosopher of art.
But here [in Derrida's text on the ellipsis of writing] meaning is only presupposed as the call to meaning, the meaning which has no meaning, of calling to meaning: the ellipsis which never links up, but which calls...
Popular factions, rather than being checked, had actually prevailed in "the tyranny of the majority". Yet property remained safe while private liberty became subject to the coercions of "public opinion". Reading into American conditions the class realities of Europe, the framers presupposed conflict when writing a Constitution whose success depended upon consensus.
Yet there is no way of writing about guns for children that does not presuppose in the latter an extraordinary maturity of thinking and acting.
Writing, like talking, is a two-way process; it presupposes that there is someone out there listening.
I'm going to presuppose the following: a) God exists: an assumption based on the fact that writing a whole piece based on a rejection of the premise of the question would be gittish and boring.
