| 词汇 | presupposition |
| 释义 | presupposition noun[ C or U ] uk /ˌpriː.sʌp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ us /ˌpriː.sʌp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/ something that you believe is true without having any proof: 推定，推测，假定 Your actions are based on some false presuppositions.你的行动是基于一些错误的假设。 This is all presupposition - we must wait until we have some hard evidence.这都是假定——我们必须要等到有确凿的证据。 Guesses and assumptions a shot in the darkidiom approximation assumption bet conjecturally conjecture counterfactual estimate misassumption misestimate misestimation overestimate overestimation proposition re-estimate rough estimate sneaking speculation speculatively suspicion You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ideas, concepts and theories Examples of presuppositionpresupposition Indeed, the presupposition of reliance on such standards is that they have survived similar critical scrutiny. But if utilitarianism suffers from presupposition failure, it is more or less meaningless. It leaves unanswered the question of what, ultimately, is the objective justification for that presupposition. This approach vindicates the utilitarian and prioritarian presupposition. The difference between a background proposition and a presupposition is that the former, unlike the latter, is not tacitly entailed but stated by the utterance. All stories are artificial constructions, he seeks to remind us, and never convey the facts to the exception of presuppositions, prejudices and blindspots about ourselves. These are linguistic expressions or constructions that seem to carry with them presuppositions about either the existence or the truth of something. The end result has been to use my original subject as a means to reflect on some of the presuppositions that can limit historical research. But what kinds of facts could constrain the interpretation of 'individual goodness measure' tightly enough to vindicate the presupposition? Situational factors and presuppositions create discourse as firmly as do lexical and syntactic parameters. Nor is it merely a reference to (or implied presupposition of) any desires that my fellows happen to have. This may be due to them both being new to the field and thus not being burdened by conventional narratological presuppositions. Indeed, it is precisely the capacity to survive in the context of negation that has been taken to distinguish presuppositions from semantic entailments. This paradox derives from the positivist presupposition that theories can be taken as data for the history of science. A conventional dictionary "defines" words: tells the reader what they mean, with the presupposition that a word has a distinct and agreed-upon meaning. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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