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Definition of Presupposed
1. presuppose [v] - See also: presuppose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presupposed
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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