0 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.
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.
Obviously, the original argument presupposes a highly skewed distribution of size, which requires a large number of weak countries to flock together against a villain.
Just governance presupposes the guidance of behavior, and the issuing of prohibitions is necessary for such guidance.
We continue to use for a context of such assumptions, again presupposing that all variables labelling hypotheses in a judgment are distinct.
The possibility of social control through law therefore presupposes a basic cognitive autonomy of the legal subject.
There is no reason to think that the latter content cannot be asserted but can only be presupposed.
Logically, of course, we cannot say everything's accidental: the concept of ' accident' presupposes a complementary class of ' non-accidents'.
They attach implausible conditions and interpretations to claims in this area - for example that a coming-to-be presupposes a pre-existing domain within which the coming-to-be occurs.
Our account presupposed that these contextual assumptions made phatic interpretations more relevant (and non-phatic assumptions less relevant) than they would otherwise have been.
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