Definition of Presupposed

1. Verb. (past of presuppose) ¹

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Definition of Presupposed

1. presuppose [v] - See also: presuppose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presupposed

presummer
presummit
presummits
presumption
presumptions
presumptious
presumptive
presumptively
presumptuous
presumptuously
presumptuousness
presupernova
presupposal
presupposals
presuppose
presupposed (current term)
presupposes
presupposing
presupposition
presuppositional
presuppositionalism
presuppositionality
presuppositionally
presuppositions
presurge
presurgery
presurgical
presurmise
presurmises
presurvey

Literary usage of Presupposed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"In the limited causality, on the other hand, the cause relates to itself in the effect, because it is its other as condition, as presupposed, and its action ..."

2. Essays on Literature and Philosophy by Edward Caird (1892)
"It is to reinterpret experience, in the light of a unity which is presupposed in it, but which cannot be made conscious or explicit until the relation of ..."

3. Essays on Literature and Philosophy by Edward Caird (1892)
"It is to reinterpret experience, in the light of a unity which is presupposed in it, but which cannot be made conscious or explicit until the relation of ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It may be well here to add that though a knowledge of Latin has been presupposed above in our imaginary class, and must always be most useful in an English ..."

5. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards, Samuel Harvey Taylor (1860)
"... when it is presupposed that the object connected with as possesses in a high degree the thing affirmed in the predicate of the sentence; the latter, ..."

6. System of Christian Theology by Henry Boynton Smith, William Stevens Karr (1890)
"PART I. OF THE INCARNATION IN ITS GENERAL NATURE AND OBJECTS. CHAPTER I. WHAT IS presupposed IN THE INCARNATION. Two things are presupposed ..."

7. Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by William Torrey Harris (1889)
"Stage of Knowing presupposed in Contemplation of Freedom—Substantial Will: Self-activity : Totality: Freedom—Formal Will: Action- Change sometimes regarded ..."

8. Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Dugald Stewart (1821)
"Of that Permanence or Stability in the Order of Nature, which is presupposed in our Reasonings concerning Contingent Truths. I HAVE already taken notice of ..."

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