Crossword-Solution: PRESUPPOSITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Presupposition | n. | The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. |
| Presupposition | n. | That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “PRESUPPOSITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| supposition | 19 answers |
| hypothesis | 41 answers |
| Chutzpah | 47 answers |
| ideality | 48 answers |
| assumption | 51 answers |
| forerunner | 69 answers |
| Inequality | 78 answers |
| Harbinger | 81 answers |
| BASIS ___ | 88 answers |
| Idea | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PRESUPPOSITION (5)
But John Bunyan did not lay down his _Pilgrim's Progress_ on any abstract theory, or on any easy and pleasant presupposition, of the Christian life.
The ultimate and unchallenged presupposition of the old view was that religion was a DOCTRINE, a body of supposed truths.
For every human presupposition and declaration has as much authority one as another, if reason do not make the difference.
Thus revelation is to be received on evidence, indeed, but an evidence conclusive only on a presupposition or series of presuppositions, evidence that is supplemented by an act of imagination, or by the grace of faith, shall we say? At any rate, the fact is, that the genius of the great reasoner, of this great master of the abstract and deductive sciences, turned theologian, carrying the methods of thought there formed into the things of faith, was after all of the imaginative order.
Suppose now that morality necessarily presupposed liberty, in the strictest sense, as a property of our will; suppose that reason contained certain practical, original principles _à priori_, which were absolutely impossible without this presupposition; and suppose, at the same time, that speculative reason had proved that liberty was incapable of being thought at all.
Quotes with PRESUPPOSITION (3)
Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that it is directed, quasi-teleologically, towards a *truth in itself* in which the reason underlying all appearances is to be found. The tacit thesis of perception is that at every instant experience can be co-ordinated with that of the previous instant and that of the following, and my perspective with that of other consciousnesse…
Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or bia…
Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which …