presupposition

Word family  noun supposition presupposition adjective supposed verb suppose presuppose adverb supposedly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++pre·sup·po·si·tion /ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən/ noun formal  1  [countable]THINK SO/NOT BE SURE something that you think is true, although you have no proof 假定（的事），假设 SYN assumptionpresupposition that Hick’s presupposition is that all religions believe in the same God. 希克的假设是所有宗教都信奉同一个神。2. [uncountable]THINK SO/NOT BE SURE when you think something is true even though you have no proof 〔认为某事正确的〕假定，假设

Examples from the Corpus

presupposition• Consequently, we shall, as with reference, avoid attributing presuppositions to sentences or propositions.• But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity.• The mutual relationship between presuppositions and evidences could be expressed like this.• Thereby I hope to provide moral justification for the non-egalitarian presuppositions of the methodology that is presented elsewhere in the book.• In each case the foreign presuppositions bring their own problems with them.• Do you see how presuppositions come in?• These are obvious, though complicated-sounding, examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without.• How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?presupposition that• But suppose I am wrong in my basic presupposition that there can not be particularity.

pre·sup·po·si·tion nounChineseSyllable  

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presupposition
pre‧sup‧po‧si‧tion /ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən/ noun formal1. [countable] something that you think is true, although you have no proof
   SYN  assumption
    presupposition that
    Hick’s presupposition is that all religions believe in the same God.
2. [uncountable] when you think something is true even though you have no proof

pre·sup·pos·itionBrE /ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃn/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] (formal) something that you believe to be true and use as the beginning of an argument even though it has not been proved; the act of believing it is true 假设的事情；假定；预设 SYN assumption ◆theories based on presupposition and coincidence基于假设和偶合的理论