presuppose

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  1. transitive verb To believe or suppose in advance.
  2. transitive verb To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition. See Synonyms at presume.

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  • More pragmatically, such gestures also provide the means for Marx to hint, for the reader's benefit, at the direction the argument will take, without breaching his careful, immanent demonstration that the categories of political economy can be shown to presuppose - to be —  Roughtheory.org
  • The Counterclaims also presuppose, contrary to the law, that Apple is required to help its competitors compete against it. —  Groklaw
  • Moreover, the two key rituals of the earliest church-communion and the baptism-both presuppose the historicity of the resurrection and both are very difficult to explain without it. —  The Constructive Curmudgeon
  • There is no respect for the public good or the rule of law, for that would presuppose the existence of a higher, objective moral and legal authority. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • Yet to presuppose that the like does not apply to same gender sexual unions lacks any Scriptural warrant, as such are also contrary in principal to the union of opposite genders originally established and uniquely affirmed throughout Scripture, with no principal or precept affording the contrary. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from Old French presupposer, French présupposer; as pre- + suppose. Cf. Spanish presuponer = Portuguese presuppôr = Italian presupporre.
 

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