Word Meanings - PRESUPPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to PRESUPPOSITION)

• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• SURMISE
  surmis, to impose, accuse; sur + mettre to put, set, L. 1. A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. double honor gain From his surmise proved
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ANTECEDENT
  1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• PRESUMPTION
  1. The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof. 2. Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as,
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• IMPLICATION
  1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an
• ANTECEDENTLY
  Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• PRESUPPOSE
  To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator. Each presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.
• SURMISER
  One who surmises.
• PRESUPPOSAL
  Presupposition. "Presupposal of knowledge." Hooker.
• SUPPOSITION
  under, a substitution, fr. supponere, suppositium, to put under, to substitute. The word has the meaning corresponding to suppose. See 1. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be
• SUPPOSITIONAL
  Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed. South.
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• PRESURMISE
  A surmise previously formed. Shak.