106 collocations for presupposed

For a modern reader the understanding of Paradise Lost presupposes two things,a knowledge of the first chapters of the Scriptures, and of the general principles of Calvinistic theology; but it is a pity to use the poem, as has so often been done, to teach a literal acceptance of one or the other.

Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher form, than any other.

As flocks and herds were the staples of wealth, a large number of servants presupposed large possessions of cattle, which would require many herdsmen.

A civilized community presupposes a government of law.

Most of the moral sciences presuppose physical science; but few of the physical sciences presuppose moral science.

This presupposed the power of Government to divide commerce into two water-tight compartments, or, at least, to regard the two spheres of power as parallel lines that would never meet; whereas with the coming of the railroad, steamship and the telegraph commerce has become so unified that the parallel lines have become lines of interlacing zigzags.

He argues by the analogy of evolution, which always presupposes a real relation between the life and the environment to which it adjusts itself, that this forth-reaching and unfolding of the soul implies the everlasting reality of religion.

For example, in case the chapter on brain action is found to presuppose more physiological knowledge than that possessed by the students, it may be omitted or may be used merely for reference when enlightenment is desired upon some of the physiological descriptions in later chapters.

The ownership of human beings necessarily presupposes an utter disregard of their happiness.

Morality presupposes pessimistic insight into the badness of the world and the fruitlessness of all desire, and pantheistic discernment of the untruth of individual existence and the identity in essence of all individuals from a metaphysical standpoint.

But it is here enough to say that we all presuppose that human experience has, or can by the loyal efforts of truth seekers be made to possess, a real unity, superior in its nature and significance to any detached observer's experience, more genuinely real than is the mere collection of the experiences of any set of detached observers, however large.

There are two ways of reaching a great age, both of which presuppose a sound constitution as a conditio sine quâ non.

The adoption of any or all of the legislative nostrums which were severally suggested, presupposed a willingness on the part of the South to carry them out and be governed thereby.

I want 'that easy air which presupposes familiarity with society'that's what it says in my book," objected Abner.

Argument.+Especially in argument is it evident that language presupposes an audience.

Geometry presupposes an arbitrary definition of a line, "that which has length but not breadth.

But if the servant "die under his hand," then the unfitness of the instrument, is point blank against him; for, striking with a rod so as to cause death, presupposed very many blows and great violence, and this kept up till the death-gasp, showed an intent to kill.

However, that presupposes a normal range of action of the other endocrines.

They presuppose the supremacy, in the collective mind of civilised mankind, of Law over Force, a definite supremacy of what may be called the civilian as against the military ideal, not in a majority of States, but in every State powerful enough to defy coercion.

It is not every man, however, who has an intellect of this kind; for any such definite individuality as I mean is geniusan original view of the world, which presupposes an absolutely exceptional individuality, which is the essence of genius.

But so far as the argument presupposes theism it cannot be made to support or even confirm theism.

The setting of "Ali Baba" shows the four characteristics of all these Perso-Arabian tales: it has to do with town life, not country life; it presupposes one faith, the Mohammedan; it shows a fondness for magic; and it takes for granted an audience interested not in moral or ethical distinctions but in story-telling for story-telling's sake.

Your mother, who presupposes ityour father, who commands it. WILHELMINE.

Again, adherence to a plan which presupposes the enemy's fleet to be in a particular formation after he is found to be in another is not to be expected of a consummate tactician.

It presupposes merely the two forces of matter, attraction and repulsion, and its primitive chaotic condition, a world-mist with elements of different density.

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