We interpret the subjective order in terms of an objective system; consciousness of the latter is the necessary presupposition of all awareness.
Kant's Critical problem first begins with this presupposition of validity, and does not exist save through it.
That is a presuppositionwhose truth is necessary to the cogency of the argument.
Space, to be space at all, must be Euclidean; the uniformity of space is a presupposition of the a priori certainty of geometrical science.
In other words, they are not derivative concepts obtained by merely omitting the restrictions essential to our empirical consciousness, but represent a presupposition necessarily involved in all consciousness.
Or to ask another but connected question, do we intuit infinitude, or is it conceptually apprehended only as the presupposition of our limited intuitions?
This is a general remark which the reader must bear in mind as being a fundamental presupposition of my entire argument.
Their objections rest upon exactly the same presupposition as the theory which they are attacking.
The absolute sufficiency of the Newtonian physics is a presupposition of all his utterances on this theme.
The three transcendental Ideas do not determine an object corresponding to them, but, under the presupposition of such an object in the Idea, lead us to systematic unity of empirical knowledge.
But they are so much a matter of unexamined presupposition that they never receive exact formulation, and alternate with one another in quite a haphazard fashion.
This is the highest and most universal form of unity, for it is a presupposition of the unity of all possible concepts, whether analytic or synthetic, in the various forms of judgment.
That the sensuously given is incapable of grounding even probable inferences, is a fundamentalpresupposition (never discussed, but always explicitly assumed) of the Critical philosophy.
It is indeed the presupposition of all philosophy and all religion; without this faith there can, properly speaking, be no belief in God.
When the monophysite uses the same words, he is wrong, because his presupposition is wrong.
In knowledge, in so far as it is a necessary presupposition of economic action, is found, if not a justification, an explanation of your phrases about logical and illogical actions.
That generalization was a presupposition of the calculations leading to the discovery.
Or if any one chooses to say that it is a presupposition and so an unwarrantable piece of dogmatism, I will say that it is the hypothesis to which all our knowledge points.
The existence of a Mind possessing universal knowledge is necessary as the presupposition both of there being any world to know, and also of there being any lesser minds to know it.
All things, all phenomena, all events form parts of a single inter-related, intelligible whole: that is the presupposition not only of Philosophy but of Science.
The agreement of this position with that of Spencer lies in the presupposition that goodness can be proved only by arrangements for giving pleasure.
It is because he conceives this presupposition to be mistaken, that Lucretius declares the practices and fears which are founded upon it to be folly.
We find this transcendental presupposition lurking in different forms in the principles of philosophers, although they have neither recognized it nor confessed to themselves its presence.
The presupposition of the whole procedure is that God's way of looking at the matters in question is the true and important one.
Consciousness is the presupposition for the existence of the psychical objects.
His own will is presupposition for being hypnotized and for realizing the suggestion.
This presuppositionis certainly often entirely correct, but as far as it is correct, the results of the suggestion vary greatly with the different individuals.
God, the belief that there is a God, an anthropomorphism--a presupposition purely human.
This presupposition even of an indeterminate faith is, however, by no means necessary.
We may call the changing course of perception only in the narrower meaning the sensory presupposition of the causal relation.
It signifies nothing more than the presupposition of all thought, the trust in a reason which establishes itself only by making use of itself.
The problems of material scientific research are not doubled by this presupposition of a real dynamic dependence, because it introduces an element not contained in the data of perception which give these problems their point of departure.
That is the ultimate presupposition of our thought, and where a complete identity is found nothing demands further explanation.
We have represented a as an event or change, in order that uniform sequences of events may alone come into consideration as the presupposition of the causal relation.
Your thinking has for a presupposition not "thinking," but you.
As we do not see our equals in the tree, the beast, so the presupposition that others are our equals springs from a hypocrisy.
If the presuppositions that have hitherto been current are to melt away in a full dissolution, they must not be dissolved into a higher presupposition again,--i.
Thinking and criticism could be active only starting from themselves, would have to be themselves the presupposition of their activity, as without being they could not be active.
I on my part start from a presupposition in presupposing myself; but my presupposition does not struggle for its perfection like "Man struggling for his perfection," but only serves me to enjoy it and consume it.
If I criticise under the presupposition of a supreme being, my criticism serves the being and is carried on for its sake: if, e.
The critic clears away everything human; and, starting from the presuppositionthat the human is the true, he works against himself, denying it wherever it had been hitherto found.
Needless to say it was the Sophists who emphasized and generalized this negative aspect--this presupposition of loss of assurance, of inconsistency, of "subjectivity.
Is not God the indispensable presupposition of trustworthy experience, rather than an empirical inference?
Note here Berkeley's version of the causal principle, which is really the central presupposition of his whole philosophy--viz.
The question carries us back to the theistic presupposition in the trustworthiness of experience--which is adapted to deceive if I am the only person existing.
In this fundamentalpresupposition Descartes is more apparent than Locke, and there is even an unconscious forecast of Kant and Hegel.
Hence the ancestor theory, also, is an arbitrary construction based on a presupposition which is in itself very improbable, namely, that all mythology and religion must eventually be traceable to a single source.
The second presupposition is that this development follows a preconceived plan; it embodies a purpose--indeed, it expresses purpose in the very highest degree precisely because it proceeds from the will of God.
Now, a survey of the course of progress described in the preceding chapters may well cause us to doubt whether the presupposition from which Herder set out in his reflections on the philosophy of history is correct.
Over against philosophy he insisted upon the independence and necessity of faith as the presupposition and basis of all religious knowledge.
They themselves gave way to anotherpresupposition equally fatal to true historical research, though in great measure common to them and their opponents.
Since our action has the character of merit, only on the presupposition of the Divine ordination, it does not follow that God is made our debtor simply, but His own, inasmuch as it is right that His will should be carried out.
Though he nominally regards the first analogy as the presupposition of the others,[18] he really does not.
His problem is to discover the presupposition of this presupposition.
For it is a presupposition of thinking that things are in themselves what we think them to be; and from the nature of the case a presupposition of thinking not only cannot be rightly questioned, but cannot be questioned at all.
We must presuppose this conformity if we are to think at all, and consciousness of the presupposition puts us in no better position.
This presupposition that what is known exists independently of being known is quite general, and applies to feeling and sensation just as much as to parts of the physical world.
Then we may state the presupposition by saying that objects, e.
It may, therefore, be regarded as the presupposition of all conceiving or bringing a manifold under a conception, and therefore of all knowledge.
The condition which is to make such a transcendental presupposition valid must be one which precedes all experience, and makes experience itself possible.
To do my little part in clearing up the confusion, I shall try to make my own presupposition explicit.
His underlying presupposition of the separate character of thought comes out in the passage last quoted.
We may express his presupposition by saying that things are what they are experienced as being; or that to give a just account of anything is to tell what that thing is experienced to be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presupposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
