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Example sentences for "presuppose"

Lexicographically close words:
presumptive; presumptively; presumptuous; presumptuously; presumptuousness; presupposed; presupposes; presupposing; presupposition; presuppositions
  1. But if I am to discuss certain theoretical problems fundamental to psychoanalysis, I must presuppose my audience to be well acquainted with the development and main results of psychoanalytic researches.

  2. It would not be permissible, according to the theory of cognition, to presuppose some pre-existing purpose from the unmistakable final meaning of biological mechanisms.

  3. Accessory motives may aid in producing an action, but they presuppose the weakness of the direct motive; and conversely, when the direct motive is strong, the action of accessory motives will be excluded.

  4. Our inability to "add to or diminish the quantity of matter in the world," is a truth which "neither is nor can be derived from experience; for the experiments which we make to verify it presuppose its truth.

  5. Although it is for the most part true that a modification of the cause is followed by a modification of the effect, the Method of Concomitant Variations does not, however, presuppose this as an axiom.

  6. Just in so far as it presupposes the apprehension of moral facts, it must presuppose a knowledge of the system of social relationships upon which some at least of those facts depend.

  7. It must be remembered, however, that their not being depreciated would presuppose that no greater number of them continued in circulation than would have circulated if they had been convertible into cash.

  8. As already intimated,(212) these variations in the quantity produced do not presuppose or require that any person should change his employment.

  9. And, last of all, it may be asked, Does there exist any human force capable of overcoming an antagonism which we presuppose to be itself the very essence of human force?

  10. This is inevitable in times of ignorance, since fixed bargains presuppose some progress at [p365] least in experimental statistics.

  11. They both presuppose the existence of a finished system of grammar, previous to the first divergence of their dialects.

  12. Affinities at least have the grace to presuppose a special sex-attraction.

  13. We can neither refer it to the past nor to the future, because these two times both presuppose the idea of the present, without which they cannot even be conceived.

  14. All the terms begun presuppose another, either one or more, for we here abstract their unity; therefore we must come at last to one or more terms not begun.

  15. If you look at the whole passage, you will see that there is not the least intention on my part to presuppose design.

  16. Indeed, the cruelties perpetrated by what we term nature have seemed to many so contrary to the very elements of moral law, as to presuppose that the power which permits and orders them is essentially immoral.

  17. They presuppose that story of a creation out of the chaos of the deep which was indigenous in Babylonia alone.

  18. And does not the change of the nerve presuppose a second in a second essence, if it is to be perceived?

  19. They presuppose a social order capable not merely of giving theoretic instruction, but of habituating the young to right practices.

  20. But the exercise and training requisite to form the habits which make the individual rejoice in right activity before he knows how and why it is right, presuppose adults who already have knowledge of the good.

  21. Every art and every philosophy may be regarded as a healing and helping appliance in the service of growing, struggling life: they always presuppose suffering and sufferers.

  22. To suppose that a food is constituted by eating is to presuppose that eating eats eating, and so on in infinite regress.

  23. Of course, the monistic epistemologies have an advantage in the statement of the problem over the dualistic--they do not state it in terms which presuppose the impossibility of the solution.

  24. Naive opinion is accustomed to presuppose a fixed sphere for our activity; it is possible for it to do this only because it confuses the spiritual and that which is less than the spiritual and leaves them undifferentiated.

  25. It is more original than the relations implied in the systems of the present day; for these, even though contrary to their own knowledge and intention, all presuppose this fundamental relation to the spiritual life.

  26. The fundamental qualities that the spiritual life evolves always presuppose a self-conscious life and become intelligible only in relation to it.

  27. Each of the sciences works within its own region, and colligates its details in the light of its own hypothesis; and all the sciences taken together presuppose the presence in the world of a principle that binds it into an orderly totality.

  28. For these questions generally presuppose the lowest possible view of this passion.

  29. It is absolute; for the faintest movement of human intelligence would be arrested, if it did not presuppose the absolute reality of intelligence, of thought itself.

  30. But all these intellectual operations, whether they be constructive or comparative and critical, presuppose immediate experiences as their subject-matter.

  31. Doubt or denial themselves presuppose and indirectly affirm it.

  32. But, meanwhile, all religions and all faith and the phenomena of conscience and the highest intuitions of reason presuppose this improbable event as the fact apart from which they are insoluble riddles.

  33. His names presuppose creation and predicate His existence and will.

  34. Thus, if there was a time when God did not manifest His qualities, then there was no God, because the attributes of God presuppose the creation of phenomena.

  35. Most of the moral sciences presuppose physical science; but few of the physical sciences presuppose moral science.

  36. It ought to be constantly kept in view that they presuppose an immediate apprehension of the infinite, and that their value consists entirely in establishing that that apprehension implies the reality and presence of God.

  37. It is obvious that even the most specialised adjustments of organic structure and activity presuppose the most general and simple uniformities of purely physical nature.

  38. But advance and progress presuppose intelligence, because they cannot be rationally conceived of apart from an ideal goal foreseen and selected.

  39. There is no law of nature so simple as not to presuppose in every instance of its action at least two things related to one another in the manner which is meant when we speak of adjustment.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presuppose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affect; allegorize; assume; believe; bring; comprise; conceive; conclude; connote; consider; contain; daresay; deduce; deem; divine; dream; entail; expect; fancy; feel; gather; grant; hint; imagine; implicate; imply; import; infer; insinuate; intimate; involve; let; mean; opine; predetermine; prefigure; premise; presume; presuppose; reckon; repute; require; say; subsume; suggest; suppose; surmise; suspect; take; think; understand