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Example sentences for "presupposes"

Lexicographically close words:
presumptuous; presumptuously; presumptuousness; presuppose; presupposed; presupposing; presupposition; presuppositions; pret; preta
  1. As for canon law, its study presupposes general notions on law and on the conditions of social authority no less than the study of civil jurisprudence.

  2. We see, then, that in all its provisions the civil law presupposes the natural law, of which it is but the complement and final determination.

  3. But who does not see that this second species of rights and duties presupposes the first and leans upon it for its necessary support?

  4. There is no motion but causes change, no change but presupposes motion.

  5. The Atonement presupposes the unity of human life, and its solidarity; it presupposes a common and universal responsibility.

  6. The principle of contradiction presupposes the idea of time, because there would be no contradiction if being and not-being were not referred to the same time.

  7. Again, the church is an organization, but an organization presupposes an organ.

  8. To understand the mind of God in the Bible presupposes a mind to comprehend His mind.

  9. From God's eternity follows his incorporeality, for we have shown before that all body is created, since it presupposes combination and separation, and the latter a combiner and separater.

  10. This presupposes the possibility of accidental infinity (cf.

  11. For genesis and decay presuppose qualitative change; and qualitative change presupposes the approach of the agent causing the change to the thing undergoing the change.

  12. It has been supposed that, as the Brâhmanas were composed in prose, they were originally written, according to the hypothesis of Wolf, that prose everywhere presupposes the knowledge of writing.

  13. I am not here to sing the praises of Physiology: its place is fixed and determined by the concurrence of all competent judges: I merely point out that Zoology does not include it, but presupposes it.

  14. They must be accepted, however, as an introduction to a more limited topic, which presupposes in some measure the general principle of toleration by the state of all forms of religious opinion.

  15. Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

  16. The assumption of plurality always presupposes that something exists which manifests itself repeatedly, but just here is where the delusion prevails; in this very matter we feign realities, unities, that have no existence.

  17. And it implies either condemning the validity of all consciousness (if intuition and intellect are aspects of each other) or else it presupposes that reality is not categorical, which Bergson fails to show.

  18. Now, the faculty of conceiving a space without quality is not at all an abstraction; on the contrary, to abstract presupposes the intuition of a homogeneous medium.

  19. So this attempt to represent space by means of time presupposes the representation of space.

  20. Therefore uneasiness about this incongruity, the very motive of intuitionism, presupposes first the sharpest conceptual treatment of the subjective “world,” and then the flagrant reification of the resulting abstractions.

  21. And simultaneity presupposes spatial determination in the coexistent elements.

  22. This very process of reasoning, moreover, presupposes the existence of God as the absolute Reason, in the way already indicated.

  23. And Dillman goes yet further back and declares that the entire work of Moses presupposes "a preparatory stage of higher religion in Abraham.

  24. Right action among men presupposes a perfect moral organization, a normal state of intellect, affection and will.

  25. The world of material phenomena presupposes a system of immaterial agency.

  26. The second form of the theory is open to the objection that the very first experience of the first man, equally with man's latest experience, presupposes this intuition, as well as the other intuitions, and therefore cannot be the cause of it.

  27. Matter, inorganic and organic, presupposes mind; but it is not true that mind presupposes matter.

  28. Holiness is an attribute of being, while benevolence is an attribute of action; but action presupposes and is controlled by being.

  29. Fellowship and progress are as important elements in religion as is dependence; and fellowship must come before progress--such fellowship as presupposes pardon and life.

  30. As creation presupposes a Creator, the preexistence of the personal Word is assigned as the explanation of the being of the universe.

  31. Act presupposes essence; else there is no God to act.

  32. The very idea of Scripture as a revelation presupposes belief in a God who can make it.

  33. We have shown, however, that induction and argument of every kind presupposes intuitive belief in final cause.

  34. As regards offences against property, private ethics presupposes legislation, which alone can determine what things are to be regarded as each man's property.

  35. As usual with Plato in discussing the virtues, with a view to their Logical definition, he presupposes that this is something beneficial and good.

  36. As categorical, it presupposes nothing else to rest its necessity upon; while by way of experience, it can never be made out to be more than a prudential precept--i.

  37. Granted that we are chiefly interested in ascertaining what is relatively right; it still follows that we must first consider what is absolutely right; since the one conception presupposes the other.

  38. The world of divinity presupposes creation, presupposes recipients of bounty, presupposes the existence of worlds.

  39. This name presupposes and proves the existence of the provided.

  40. It presupposes the existence of permanent (subject) which would receive the form of begotten things only after having lost the earlier form.

  41. Ignorance presupposes a relation, and consists in that one thing does not know another.

  42. Rest is the condition of identity; movement is the condition of thought, since the latter presupposes the differences of the thinking subject and of the object thought, and because it is silent if reduced to unity.

  43. This thought presupposes an anterior thought which implies no movement.

  44. But this, to be of value for evolution, presupposes the same variation occurring simultaneously in a number of individuals within reach of each other.

  45. True, science must also progress; but progress means growth, which presupposes the preservation of what has been received from of old.

  46. This much can be concluded without hesitation: that, as now admitted by almost all critics, Luke's Gospel presupposes the destruction of Jerusalem.

  47. When making his calculations the mathematician presupposes the correctness of the multiplication table.

  48. There is no utmost end in this world, for while we live we have desires, and desire presupposes a further end.

  49. All delight is appetite and presupposes a further end.

  50. There is but one preliminary requirement, just as every branch of human knowledge presupposes its A B C.

  51. It must be remembered, that this great style itself is artificial in the highest degree: it presupposes in the spectator, a cultivated and prepared artificial state of mind.

  52. Thus the debater moves round and round and presupposes one-sided premises which must be annulled before he can be in a state to perceive the truth.

  53. Conversation presupposes a common sympathy in the subject, a great equality in the speakers; absence of egotism, a tender criticism of what is spoken.

  54. But, as I've said before, that presupposes that Ashton told somebody the secret.

  55. But it presupposes one thing, and makes one horribly suspicious of another.

  56. D), presupposes the conquest of central Palestine and the removal of the ark from Gilgal.

  57. The history of the Levite and the Benjamites is of quite another character, and presupposes a degree of unity of feeling and action among the tribes of Israel which it is not easy to reconcile with the rest of the book.

  58. The older source, however, presupposes that Judah and the two Joseph tribes have acquired their territory; the remaining seven are blamed for their indifference (xviii.

  59. Again, all contumely presupposes the presence of the party affronted; the affront is thrown in one's face, and therein consists the shocking indecency of the thing and its specific malice.

  60. The fact of lying presupposes that we intend in some manner to practise deception; if we did not have such a purpose we would not resort to lying.

  61. Born within the sphere of the Saracen-Sicilian influence, and of high rank, he must have met with what rationalism there was, and he always presupposes it.

  62. It presupposes that the vast majority of forms that survive accidental destruction, succumb in the second struggle for life in which the determining factor is some slight individual variation, e.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presupposes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.