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Presupposition   Listen
noun
Presupposition  n.  
1.
The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
2.
That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.





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"Presupposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... question? or does any one believe that a mythological solution of the problem, how death originated—a solution which ex hypothesi has not a particle of truth or even of meaning in it—could have furnished the presupposition for the fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion, that Christ died for our sins, and that in Him we have our forgiveness through His blood? A truth which has appealed so powerfully to man cannot be sustained on a falsehood. That ...
— The Atonement and the Modern Mind • James Denney


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