0 to accept that something is true before it has been proved: --
[ + that ] All this presupposes that he'll get the job he wants.
Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.
[ + that ] You're presupposing that he'll have told her - but he may not have.
1 to think that something is true in advance without having any proof, or to consider that something is necessarily true if something else is true: --
[ + that clause ] You’re presupposing that he told her – but he may not have.
Characteristics of persons and settings are, at best, indexically presupposed by the utterances deemed appropriate to them.
No more ' free' lands remained; a situation had been created in which every fresh conquest presupposed wresting territory from its owner.
On the other hand, some thornier concepts are never explicitly introduced, but rather presupposed.
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.
More marked has come to mean ' less informative than ', or else ' accentuating ' (61) affirmative statements either by presupposing them or by correcting them.
Rather, it presupposes the existence and the authority of such sentiments.
Furthermore, case assignment is presupposed several chapters before the crucial uninterpretable case features are introduced (281ff.).
Our account presupposed that these contextual assumptions made phatic interpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been.
