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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
James Mark Baldwin

Meaning of "presupposition" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRESUPPOSITION

presupposition  [ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRESUPPOSITION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Presupposition is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRESUPPOSITION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Presupposition

In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. Examples of presuppositions include: ▪ Jane no longer writes fiction. ▪ Presupposition: Jane once wrote fiction. ▪ Have you stopped eating meat? ▪ Presupposition: you had once eaten meat. ▪ Have you talked to Hans? ▪ Presupposition: Hans exists. A presupposition must be mutually known or assumed by the speaker and addressee for the utterance to be considered appropriate in context. It will generally remain a necessary assumption whether the utterance is placed in the form of an assertion, denial, or question, and can be associated with a specific lexical item or grammatical feature in the utterance. Crucially, negation of an expression does not change its presuppositions: I want to do it again and I don't want to do it again both presuppose that the subject has done it already one or more times; My wife is pregnant and My wife is not pregnant both presuppose that the subject has a wife.

Definition of presupposition in the English dictionary

The definition of presupposition in the dictionary is an assumption taken as the basis for reaching a conclusion. Other definition of presupposition is the requirement for to be satisfied as a precondition for a statement to be either true or false or for a speech act to be felicitous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRESUPPOSITION


apposition
ˌæpəˈzɪʃən
composition
ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən
deposition
ˌdɛpəˈzɪʃən
disposition
ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən
electrodeposition
ɪˈlektrəʊˌdepəˈzɪʃən
exposition
ˌɛkspəˈzɪʃən
imposition
ˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən
interposition
ˌɪntəpəˈzɪʃən
juxtaposition
ˌdʒʌkstəpəˈzɪʃən
opposition
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃən
oviposition
ˌəʊvɪpəˈzɪʃən
position
pəˈzɪʃən
predisposition
ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃən
preposition
ˌprɛpəˈzɪʃən
proposition
ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃən
reposition
ˌriːpəˈzɪʃən
superimposition
ˌsuːpərˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən
superposition
ˌsuːpəpəˈzɪʃən
supposition
ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən
transposition
ˌtrænspəˈzɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRESUPPOSITION

presumable
presumably
presume
presumedly
presumer
presuming
presumingly
presummit
presumption
presumptive
presumptively
presumptiveness
presumptuous
presumptuously
presumptuousness
presuppose
presurgery
presurmise
presurvey
presweetened

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRESUPPOSITION

accreditation
acquisition
addition
ambition
audition
competition
condition
definition
edition
exhibition
expedition
ignition
in a position
in addition
in mint condition
limited edition
nutrition
recognition
tradition
transition
tuition

Synonyms and antonyms of presupposition in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRESUPPOSITION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «presupposition» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of presupposition

Translation of «presupposition» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRESUPPOSITION

Find out the translation of presupposition to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of presupposition from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «presupposition» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

预设
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

presuposición
570 millions of speakers

English

presupposition
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

presupposition
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الافتراض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предпосылка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pressuposto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পূর্বধারণা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

présupposition
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Presupposition
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Voraussetzung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前提
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Presupposition
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự đoán trước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

presupposition
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दृढता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

önceden varsayma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

presupposto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

założenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

передумова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

presupoziție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προϋπόθεση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

veronderstelling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förutsättningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

presupposition
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of presupposition

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESUPPOSITION»

The term «presupposition» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESUPPOSITION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about presupposition

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QUOTES WITH «PRESUPPOSITION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word presupposition.
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James Mark Baldwin
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESUPPOSITION»

Discover the use of presupposition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to presupposition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Presupposition and Discourse Functions of the Japanese ...
not) 'satisfy' a presupposition. Following Karttunen (1973), I will equate what a sentence pragmatically presupposes with what the speaker presupposes by uttering the sentence. As the usage of a linguistic form is constrained by a set of ...
Sachiko Shudo, 2013
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Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the ...
In The Dynamics of Meaning, Gennaro Chierchia tackles central issues in dynamic semantics and extends the general framework.
Gennaro Chierchia, 1995
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The Inheritance of Presupposition
This work presents a procedural account of the so-called projection problem for presupposition.
John Dinsmore, 1981
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The Study of Language
Presupposition. When we use a referring expression like this, he or Shakespeare , we usually assume that our listeners can recognize which referent is intended. In a more general way, we design our linguistic messages on the basis of ...
George Yule, 2010
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Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics
In this book, first published in 1975, Dr Kempson argues that previous work on presupposition has been mistakenly based on a conflation of two different disciplines: semantics, the study of the meanings assigned to the formal system which ...
Ruth M. Kempson, 1975
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Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The ...
Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive arguments about office.
Conal Condren, 2006
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The Pragmatics of Translation
Experts in these matters are dreadfully keen to find out, for example, what kind of person would say 'The King of France is bald' when, as everybody knows, there is no such person and so the presupposition of his existence cannot hold.
Leo Hickey, 1998
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The Problem of the Criterion
There is a striking similarity between Stalnaker's notion of pragmatic presupposition and Hungerland's notion of contextual implication. On Hunger- land's account, if S presupposes S' in the Strawsonian sense, then the speaker, in making the ...
Robert P. Amico, 1995
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Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic ...
ROBERT STALNAKER PRESUPPOSITIONS My aim is to sketch a general abstract account of the notion of presupposition, and to argue that the presupposition relation which linguists talk about should be explained in terms of this general ...
D.J. Hockney, William Harper, B. Freed, 1975
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Information Sharing: Reference and Presupposition in ...
This book introduces the concept of information sharing as an area of cognitive science, defining it as the process by which speakers depend on "given" information to convey "new" information—an idea crucial to language engineering.
Kees van Deemter, Rodger Kibble, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESUPPOSITION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term presupposition is used in the context of the following news items.
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“Tim Farron should be judged on his policies, not because he is an …
I want to know why people are asking, and it seems to me that it's based on a presupposition that if you are religious, and you pray, then you ... «Evangelical Focus, Jul 15»
2
Reds Land Trio of Promising Lefties for Cueto
Trading Cueto is his walk year was a long a presupposition and both the fans and executives have spent a good part of the last month or so ... «Today's Knuckleball, Jul 15»
3
Understanding the US War State. “Watching the War Crime Unfold”
Presupposition 2 is that America is the ultimate source and moving line of the world's freedom and goodness, God's material embodiment on ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
4
Modern love needs a new romantic paradigm
But why the presupposition that marriage of one sort or another is where everyone will end up? Ansari and Klinenberg admit that not everyone ... «Al Jazeera America, Jul 15»
5
Japan Cuts 2015 Interview: THIS COUNTRY'S SKY Director Arai …
... with someone that has a wife and kid, but in that scene, the mother assumes that they will die in a B-29 air raid, so death is a presupposition. «TwitchFilm, Jul 15»
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If anyone is behaving like a "petulant child" it's Chuka Umunna.
It hardly looks like a coincidence that a self-serving career politician like Chuka Umunna would make the presupposition that what the ... «NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL LOLS, Jul 15»
7
Review: Approach Michael Wolff's Television is the New Television …
That phrasing, that lilting counterintuitive presupposition has evolved into a kind of conversational meme. Tagging purposefully hounding ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards On Evidence Of …
This entire statement, which some are calling an “apology,” is based on the presupposition that late-term aborted babies aren't human. Abortion ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
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A Glimpse at Autodesk's Robotics Lab of the Future
To break this presupposition, they decided to have the robots watch people and learn their tasks, styles of work and other nuances. To have the ... «ENGINEERING.com, Jul 15»
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TN Interview: Coach Mark Bey, Part II
... this point their volley technique is still the best, the presupposition is that the volleyer is supposed to best the baseliner in high level doubles. «Tennis Now, Jul 15»

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