presuppose
预设,预先假定,预设为,预先假设
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pre·sup·posed, pre·sup·pos·ing.
- : to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- : to require or imply as an antecedent condition: An effect presupposes a cause.
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Capitalism presupposes that you have things like competition, that you have things like price transparency, that you have things like efficient capital markets, that consumers are making choices.
In other words, the very engagement with rational argument and evidence presupposes facts about value.
Never presuppose what business partners are thinking, but reach out, stay in touch, and find out if you can be helpful to them.
It deserves remark, that these early generalizations did not, like scientific inductions, presuppose causation.
All social judgments presuppose a system of recognized values.
More clearly even than petition does thanksgiving presuppose a personal being, capable of appreciating the feeling of gratitude.
They actually presuppose its existence in the Church as the necessary condition of their own existence.
It is however to be understood that the different cases all presuppose the same total moment of momentum.