Definition of Presuppositions

1. Noun. (plural of presupposition) ¹

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Definition of Presuppositions

1. presupposition [n] - See also: presupposition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Presuppositions

presumptuous
presumptuously
presumptuousness
presupernova
presupposal
presupposals
presuppose
presupposed
presupposes
presupposing
presupposition
presuppositional
presuppositionalism
presuppositionality
presuppositionally
presuppositions (current term)
presurge
presurgery
presurgical
presurmise
presurmises
presurvey
presurveyed
presurveying
presurveys
presuspension
presweeten
presweetened
presweetening
presweetens

Literary usage of Presuppositions

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

1. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"The presuppositions of Feelings of Participation. (a) In the First Stage of Sympathetic Projection the presuppositions are Presumptions. ..."

2. Reason & Revelation: An Essay in Christian Apology by John Richardson Illingworth (1903)
"... OF CHARACTER ON THE FORMATION OF presuppositions IT will be obvious, from the foregoing pages, that the reasonableness of the Christian position depends ..."

3. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"Either the ground is already contained in the way in which the judgment arises from its presuppositions, and it appears from the first as the necessary ..."

4. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"Either the ground is already contained in the way in which the judgment arises from its presuppositions, and it appears from the first as the necessary ..."

5. Authority, Ecclesiastical and Biblical by Francis Joseph Hall (1908)
"They cannot in fact escape presuppositions, and any attempt to banish them is as unscientific as a natural scientist's attempt would be to cultivate crass ..."

6. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"CHAPTER I THE presuppositions OF ALL EMPIRICAL SCIENCES IN undertaking to set forth the necessary and legitimate presuppositions of theology as an empirical ..."

7. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"CHAPTER I THE presuppositions OF ALL EMPIRICAL SCIENCES IN undertaking to set forth the necessary and legitimate presuppositions of theology as an empirical ..."

8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... he is influenced in his view by psychological %nd metaphysical presuppositions. In the forefront of Schleiermacher's theory stands his interpretation of ..."

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