presupposition

IPA: prisʌpʌzˈɪʃʌn

An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
The act of presupposing.
(linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.

Examples of "presupposition" in Sentences

A presupposition is a type of belief.
Presupposition and linguistic context.
Presupposition and presumption do not pay.
Presuppositional apologetics is a narrow field.
M. Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics.
That presupposition and entailment are inferences is obvious.
Anything less is a presupposition and therefore innately unreal.
For example, here are the lexical presuppositions for bachelorhood.
It is here that the idealized presuppositions of communication arise.
Formal Theory of Presupposition We are concerned in this section with formalizing the notion of presupposition within the framework of SS.