presupposition

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  1. Supposition in advance of experience or knowledge; surmise; conjecture. There were many great conjectures and presuppositions, and many long circumstances to bring it to conclusion. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 383.
  2. Postulation as of an antecedent condition; hence, that which is postulated as a necessary antecedent condition; a prerequisite. Satan will be an adversary, man will be proud: a necessity upon presupposition of Satan's malice, and man's wickedness. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 394. Self-directing agency is the presupposition of ethical science, and separates it by a sharp line from Physics. New Princeton Rev., I. 183.

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  • Thus alone can we and may we speak of the progress of humanity.Otherwise the world would never be redeemed from chaos, since every generationwould be entitled to reject the past and hence destroy the works of thepast as the presupposition for its own work. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Causes of the Collapse
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  • Creation Science rejects this presupposition, therefore interpreting the same observed data according to a different worldview. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • New Mysterianism is often characterized as a presupposition that some problems cannot be solved. —  Integral Options Cafe
  • It seems to me that one of the most contentious and unremarked upon effects of speculative realism has to do with its attack on a piece of continental dogma - namely the presupposition that ontology is necessarily political. —  the accursed share
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  1. from French présupposition = Spanish presuposicion = Portuguese presupposição = Italian presupposizione; as pre- + supposition. Cf. presuppose.
 

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