presuppose in English

verb
1
(of an action, process, or argument) require as a precondition of possibility or coherence.
his relationships did not permit the degree of self-revelation that true intimacy presupposes

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "presuppose" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "presuppose", or refer to the context using the word "presuppose" in the English Dictionary.

1. Let us presuppose that he wants money.

2. Don't presuppose my guilt.

3. Such terms presuppose a division of time into diurnal spans.

4. Let us presuppose that he wins the game.

5. 7 All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man.

6. It's dangerous to presuppose that a person is guilty.

7. I presuppose that you have done your work.

8. We cannot presuppose the truth of his statements.

9. All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man.

10. These pleas presuppose execution of the will by the testator.

11. I don't presuppose that, I know it a bit, I've seen it.

12. Teachers sometimes presuppose a fairly high level of knowledge by the students.

13. First, they will fill in basic material which the readings presuppose.

14. The equality of human beings does not presuppose, however, biological equality.

15. The Court considers that such indications presuppose an agreement on the prices in question.

16. But all these specific activities of government presuppose the existence of an organized political society.

17. All these plans presuppose that the bank will be willing to lend us the money.

18. To say that x instantiates a property P is hence to presuppose that x exists.

19. It is unrealistic to presuppose a sophisticated knowledge of harmony and counterpoint beginningstudent.

20. Both sentences presuppose that there were demonstrators who were planning to march, but that is all.

21. Our model of political communication does not presuppose a view that the mass media are omnipotent.

22. Presuppose everyone else is a part of you, just like one of your own dream characters.

23. It is not only biology, but cosmology, physics and astronomy that presuppose a general evolutionary account of the cosmos.

24. 5 It is not only biology, but cosmology, physics and astronomy that presuppose a general evolutionary account of the cosmos.

25. All arguments on behalf of the unities of time and place presuppose that a stage representation can be mistaken for reality.

26. The most brilliant societies and civilizations, however, presuppose within their own borders cultures and societies of a more elementary kind.

27. This account seems to presuppose some prior practiced skill on Jacob’s part, since the struggle was an indecisive one that lasted for hours.

28. Assume definition: take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof synonyms: take for granted, presume, anticipate, expect, presuppose

29. Affirmative action does not presuppose the desirability of what I called a Balkanized society, nor is there any real danger that it will in fact produce one.

30. Affirmative action does not presuppose the desirability of what I called a Balkanized society, nor is there any real danger that it will in fact produce one.

31. Presuppose a functioning Linux distribution installed on nonexotic hardware, even though LFS is probably less demanding as far as configuration tools and scripting are concerned.

32. The negative judgment, for example, cannot be held in one and the same undivided act to presuppose the unity of the real, project an adjective as Conceivably applicable to it and assert its rejection. Conceivably …

33. Albit profeti retoryczny presuppose repaire kryminalista jijuu gnat sustainable tourism development adjustable tariff Soviet kiristysrengas Boheme value late arrival hallar petty larceny betonivalu coerceo Placelessly asleep zip-code poreus இரட்டைப் பாலம் multiple decrements twaalf somebody who serves at tables

34. Certainly the success of the ministry of exorcism by the seventy-two does not presuppose the downfall of Satan; rather, their mission presupposes only what Jesus claims (Analeptically)—namely, that he had given them authority over all satanic forces.

35. Meta-Level Meaning Agnosticisms Most of the di erent rival views in the philosophy of religion today presuppose that it makes sense, cognitively, to speak about God and God’s existence (and, mutatis mutandis, about other religiously relevant matters, such as the reality of afterlife)

36. The Pastoral Epistles, by Dibelius and Conzelmann, acknowledges that at 1 Timothy 2:5 ‘the term “mediator” has a legal significance,’ and “although in this passage, in contrast to Heb 8:6, the [covenant] is not mentioned, one must nevertheless presuppose the meaning ‘mediator of the covenant,’ as the context shows.”

37. The ‘Crawling order’, it is demonstrably clear, was not altogether different from many of the other regulations imposed during Martial Law in the Punjab, insofar as all these orders presuppose that the Indian is a knowable subject for the British, that the native mind is never too dense (unless it be dense with seditious thoughts), and that

38. The Government Advocate's argument in the Conseil d'État was that "it would be contrary to the principle of certainty in the law and to respect for legitimate expectations, given the cumbersome, slow and complex nature of the procedures for awarding motorway concessions, to require immediate imposition of the directive's new publicity obligations, which would clearly presuppose the possibility of reversing the selection".