take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work
require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones"
take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work"
If one thing presupposes another, the first thing cannot be true or exist unless the second thing is true or exists. All your arguments presuppose that he's a rational, intelligent man The end of an era presupposes the start of another
To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator
require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work
What is implicitly involved in making an assertion Hence, according to P F Strawson, a presupposition is a necessary condition for either the truth or the falsity of the statement that presupposes it Thus, for example, "My grand-daughter is a smart baby"whether or not she exhibits intelligent behaviorpresupposes that I do, in fact, have at least one female grand-child Recommended Reading: Douglas N Walton, Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning (Erlbaum, 1995) {at Amazon com}; Nirit Kadmon, Formal Pragmatics: Semantics, Pragmatics, Presupposition, and Focus (Blackwell, 2001) {at Amazon com}; and Gennaro Chierchia, Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar (Chicago, 1995) {at Amazon com} Also see OCDL and noesis
A presupposition is something that you assume to be true, especially something which you must assume is true in order to continue with what you are saying or thinking. the presupposition that human life must be sustained for as long as possible
1 - Something that has to be taken for granted for a behavior or statement to make sense 2 - The linguistic equivalents to assumptions Of NLP, Convenient beliefs or assumptions you make when you are doing therapy with someone