presuppose

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Being based on or depending on something
-based
as the case may bephrase
base something on something
bases
basis
dependently
divine right
egg
entail
footing
found
rest on/upon something
rest with someone
result from something
ride
ride on something/someone
rooted
strength
understanding
wake

Examples of supposing

supposing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

How could the way we see things affect our choices, supposing that it does?
Intellectuals would have to be compared with social actors other than intellectuals and with non-intellectual modes of action (supposing these exist).
I do not see a strong case for supposing that the boundary separating accessible and inaccessible mental phenomena falls neatly between representation and processing.
He began by supposing that each different pattern of interconnection could be made to produce a different system response.
By supposing that there are infinite utilities, the concepts of robustness and fragility are rendered useless as ways of distinguishing between prudential decisions.
This might be difficult to do, in light of (what we are supposing would be) obvious prudential reasons to choose the good.
I am supposing throughout this discussion that there is no opportunity for different intentions to show up in different behavior and different effects.
So, supposing that participants under the natural-law approach must "look directly to moral theory," what is the problem with it?
This fact is best explained, we said, by supposing that there is a common property visually represented.
Moreover, the conflation can be explained without supposing that the term is ambiguous.
This point warrants further exploration by the authors if they wish to retain their strong position of supposing that visual details are never internalised.
Supposing that we have already made the pieces and the board, there will still be decisions to be made about the rules.
But then my contention that one thereby acquires an overriding reason for supposing that not not-p would be unclear at best.
It is, however, natural to conjecture that without supposing injectivity the dynamics still consists of attracting periodic orbits.
I am supposing that they would acknowledge that they would be better off with economic development, but still prefer equality.
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.