0 past simple and past participle of presuppose
1 to accept that something is true before it has been proved:
[ + that ] You're presupposing that he'll have told her - but he may not have.
Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.
[ + that ] All this presupposes that he'll get the job he wants.
But of course if you presuppose language, you have already presupposed institutions.
The unusual constituents are pernicious from a point of view upholding the concept of rigid/stereotypical syntactic constituency often presupposed by traditional theories of syntax.
On the other hand, some thornier concepts are never explicitly introduced, but rather presupposed.
No more ' free' lands remained; a situation had been created in which every fresh conquest presupposed wresting territory from its owner.
Characteristics of persons and settings are, at best, indexically presupposed by the utterances deemed appropriate to them.
It is often presupposed that good governance necessitates a constitutional structure that includes the basics of popular representation and legitimacy as indicated by periodic elections.
There is no reason to think that the latter content cannot be asserted but can only be presupposed.
Our account presupposed that these contextual assumptions made phatic interpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been.
