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Definition of Presuppositions
1. presupposition [n] - See also: presupposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presuppositions
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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