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presupposingly

presupposingly adverb: in a presupposing manner.

Adverb

presupposingly (comparative more presupposingly, superlative most presupposingly)

  1. In a presupposing manner.
    • 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...
    • 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...

Examples of presupposingly in a sentence

  • 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...
  • 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...

Forms of presupposingly

comparativemore presupposingly
superlativemost presupposingly

Origin of presupposingly

From presupposing + -ly.

Questions about presupposingly

What does presupposingly mean?
Presupposingly means in a presupposing manner.
How do you use presupposingly in a sentence?
Powerful language is now comprised of those words that refer to, or presupposingly index, the source of divine power, the deity.
What part of speech is presupposingly?
Presupposingly is an adverb.

Words near presupposingly in the dictionary

  1. presupposedness
  2. presupposer
  3. presupposers
  4. presupposes
  5. presupposing
  6. presupposingly
  7. presupposition
  8. presuppositional
  9. presuppositionalism
  10. presuppositionalist
  11. presuppositionalistic

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