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What does presuppose mean?

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  1. To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
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Admiration for a great man and his important work does not presuppose uncritical acceptance of all his views.
They may indeed show that one can construct Frankfurt-type examples that explicitly presuppose indeterminism in which there are no alternative possibilities.
This perception of blindness in terms of social exclusion appears in some passages of the Israelite literature that presuppose the Levitical health care system.
Such an argument would have to presuppose that there is somehow something wrong with being gay.
At the same time, to adopt such a course must surely be to presuppose that there is a genuine issue regarding the reality of what is thus accepted.
We do not, of course, presuppose that nowhere ever is there a failure of, say, vision.

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