presupposition

How To Use presupposition In A Sentence

• Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
• Methods In this paper, the authors introduced orthonormal contrast transformation to avoid auto-correlation, and proposed the tests of presuppositions by likelihood ratio statistics.
• However, this is just the inevitable defeasibility of any form of inference that depends on background empirical presuppositions.
• Cultural presupposition is a kind of thinking pattern and behavioral model which establishes itself on the basis of cultural context.
• The Christian idea of humanity is one such presupposition, and in our country, it is the culturally dominant one.
• The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used for the purpose of identifying reference, and its distinguishability by an audience from anything else, is presupposed and not asserted in an utterance containing such an expression, so used, stands absolutely firm, whether or not one opts for the view that radical failure of the presupposition would deprive the statement of a truth-value. Peter Frederick Strawson
• But he does not engage in a moral defence of the ideology of liberalism; rather his strategy is the much deeper one of showing that totalitarianism is typically based upon historicist and holist presuppositions, and of demonstrating that these presuppositions are fundamentally incoherent. Karl Popper
• Secondly, metaphor presupposition can be judged successfully by the true-false value method and the "negation test".
• Presupposition, as a notion borrowed from philosophy a controversial issue in the linguistic field since 1970.
• Each participant also behaves as if there exists only one presupposition pool shared by all participants in the discourse.