0 present 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.
The emphasis on form in our coding scheme was intended to avoid presupposing that utterances had a particular meaning associated with them.
Presupposing such a plan, an adaptive system should be able to recognise certain plans.
Finally, it was noted whether the protagonist was introduced with or without the child presupposing knowledge of his existence on the part of the listener.
In the case of a presupposing index, it is necessary for the par ticipants to recognize its indexical force and respond accordingly.
Instead of presupposing language and analyzing institutions, we have to analyze the role of language in the constitution of institutions.
Deviation from normality is shown to be less important by comparing predictions of the infinitesimal model with a model presupposing normality.
Standards may then be defended not as presupposing autonomy and thereby justifying it, but as its gift.
It is the very characteristics of research that it continually changes goals rather than presupposing them, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
