0 past simple and past participle of presuppose
1 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.
It is not presupposed, however, that thoughts are borne by sentence-like structures.
Some aspects of our social life are either presupposed by neoclassical accounts or are beyond (or outside) their scope.
The entire structure that leads to my account of injunctions is necessarily presupposed by any sort of ordering by contract. 30.
Clearly, this usage of time and the attributes presupposed provide meaning not apparent in the earlier example, (9).
At any time during a given discourse situation, a proposition can either be presupposed or expressed via a parenthetical (or a non-restrictive relative clause).
Embedded under a non-factive predicate, however (as they are above), these propositions are not presupposed and not taken for granted by the questions.
Nor do they participate in any of the rituals where the belief is 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.
