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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of presuppose.

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Examples

  • Are you honestly telling me that every and all materialist theories about the brain presupposed that problems like OCD could be overcome by mental focus and dialogue?

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Are you honestly telling me that every and all materialist theories about the brain presupposed that problems like OCD could be overcome by mental focus and dialogue?

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • For the syllogism is always contrary to the fact, e.g. if a thing is good, it is proved that it is not good, if an animal, that it is not an animal because the syllogism springs out of a contradiction and the terms presupposed are either identical or related as whole and part.

    Prior Analytics Aristotle 2002

  • For the syllogism is always contrary to the fact, e.g. if a thing is good, it is proved that it is not good, if an animal, that it is not an animal because the syllogism springs out of a contradiction and the terms presupposed are either identical or related as whole and part.

    PRIOR ANALYTICS Aristotle 1989

  • The noise of an engine getting up steam, the rattle of cabs and porters 'barrows, the tread and voices of a multitude of people made fitting accompaniment to a dialogue which in every word presupposed the corruptions and miseries of a centre of modern life.

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • I kind of presupposed this ancient, this relic would have a hard time talking to me, but was I totally surprised.

    Guanajuato restaurants 2009

  • I kind of presupposed this ancient, this relic would have a hard time talking to me, but was I totally surprised.

    Guanajuato restaurants 2009

  • I kind of presupposed this ancient, this relic would have a hard time talking to me, but was I totally surprised.

    Guanajuato restaurants 2009

  • I kind of presupposed this ancient, this relic would have a hard time talking to me, but was I totally surprised.

    Guanajuato restaurants 2009

  • I kind of presupposed this ancient, this relic would have a hard time talking to me, but was I totally surprised.

    Guanajuato restaurants 2009

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