
Top 20 Presupposed Quotes
#1. Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.
Jurgen Habermas
#2. The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative, in turn, included both the physical and emotional dimensions of a man's bodily self.
Thomas Van Nortwick
#3. What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
Charles Francis Richter
#4. Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary ... and this assumption is untenable.
Arthur Schuster
#5. The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#6. We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.
Immanuel Kant
#7. It is presupposed that no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe, and that it is the business of speculative philosophy to exhibit this truth. This character is its coherence.
Alfred North Whitehead
#9. ... Weber insists that the value of science is always to be questioned and not simply presupposed... He is... critical of the presupposition which underlies Strauss' position, namely that scientific reason is necessarily of value.
Nicholas Gane
#10. Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
William Ames
#11. Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
#12. Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a self-correction should take place.
Andras Laszlo
#13. Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.
Robert M. Price
#14. In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.
Paul George
#15. Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.
Moon-kie Jung
#16. Everyone that you'll ever met wil know someone that you won't
Bill Nye
#17. She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
Stephen King
#18. The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting.
Darrel Ray
#20. Global competition is about winners and losers.
David Korten
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