presupposingly

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1. In a presupposing manner.

   Powerful language is now comprised of those words that refer to, or presupposingly index, the source of divine power, the deity.

   1989, Naomi Janowitz, The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 86

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   It is an imaginative intuition, an intuition of ‘inward meaning’, and which only depends on external perception presupposingly, as does imagination itself.

   1937, Jacques Maritain, “Our Knowledge of Sensible Nature”, in Bernard Wall, Margot R. Adamson, transl., The Degrees of Knowledge, London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, part one (The Degrees of Rational Knowledge), pages 174–175

   From the perspective of our standard framework of fact-presupposingly multicriterial concepts, the actual result will be confusion instead of clarity when an hypothesis abrogates the background understanding of how things work in the world that is an indispensable foundation for such concepts.

   1973, Nicholas Rescher, “A Critique of Pure Analysis”, in The Primacy of Practice: Essays Towards a Pragmatically Kantian Theory of Empirical Knowledge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, →ISBN, section 4 (Some Consequences for Conceptual Analysis), page 115

   Our November 1991 issue reported that a foreign partnership may be registered in the ROC as a patent owner, an administrative decision presupposingly recognizing a foreign partnership as a legal person.

   1991, Lee and Li Bulletin

   Henry Maurier, a theologian of the other religions, regards the Christian dialogue with other religions as something like a dialogue between a crushing elephant (Christianity) and a crushed mouse (the other religions) because the Christian notion of the dialogue continuously makes the other religions to be relativized and condemned, presupposingly that only the Christian faith is absolute.

   1996, Pyun Sun Hwan, “Other Religions and Theology”, in Yeow Choo Lak, editor, Doing Theology with Asian Resources (Theology and Religious Plurarity; volume three), ATESEA, →ISBN, page 73

   For example, if someone has a difficult time trying to lose weight, they may pose the question “Why can’t I lose weight?” Do you see how presupposingly negative this questions^([sic]) is?

   2000, Sam Varner, “You Become What You Think About”, in Slimmer, Younger, Stronger: 12 Simple Things You Can Do to Achieve Optimum Health, Boston, Mass.; Shaftesbury, Dorset; Melbourne, Vic.: Element, →ISBN, section V (Thought), page 156