presupposition
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹiː.sʌ.pəˈzɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
presupposition
- An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
- 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow 2011, p. 40:
- He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.
- 2010, Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass, Arrow 2011, p. 40:
- The act of presupposing.
- (linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.
- (assumption) assumption, conjecture
- German: Annahme
- Portuguese: pressuposição, pressuposto
- Portuguese: pressuposição
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