presupposingly

English

Etymology

From presupposing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

presupposingly (comparative more presupposingly, superlative most presupposingly)

1. In a presupposing manner.
   • 1937, Jacques Maritain, “Our Knowledge of Sensible Nature”, in Bernard Wall, Margot R. Adamson, transl., The Degrees of Knowledge, London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, part one (The Degrees of Rational Knowledge), pages 174–175:

     It is an imaginative intuition, an intuition of ‘inward meaning’, and which only depends on external perception presupposingly, as does imagination itself.

   • 1973, Nicholas Rescher, “A Critique of Pure Analysis”, in The Primacy of Practice: Essays Towards a Pragmatically Kantian Theory of Empirical Knowledge, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, →ISBN, section 4 (Some Consequences for Conceptual Analysis), page 115:

     From the perspective of our standard framework of fact-presupposingly multicriterial concepts, the actual result will be confusion instead of clarity when an hypothesis abrogates the background understanding of how things work in the world that is an indispensable foundation for such concepts.

   • 1989, Naomi Janowitz, The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     Powerful language is now comprised of those words that refer to, or presupposingly index, the source of divine power, the deity.

   • 1991, Lee and Li Bulletin:

     Our November 1991 issue reported that a foreign partnership may be registered in the ROC as a patent owner, an administrative decision presupposingly recognizing a foreign partnership as a legal person.

   • 1996, Pyun Sun Hwan, “Other Religions and Theology”, in Yeow Choo Lak, editor, Doing Theology with Asian Resources (Theology and Religious Plurarity; volume three), ATESEA, →ISBN, page 73:

     Henry Maurier, a theologian of the other religions, regards the Christian dialogue with other religions as something like a dialogue between a crushing elephant (Christianity) and a crushed mouse (the other religions) because the Christian notion of the dialogue continuously makes the other religions to be relativized and condemned, presupposingly that only the Christian faith is absolute.

   • 2000, Sam Varner, “You Become What You Think About”, in Slimmer, Younger, Stronger: 12 Simple Things You Can Do to Achieve Optimum Health, Boston, Mass., Shaftesbury, Dorset, Melbourne, Vic.: Element, →ISBN, section V (Thought), page 156:

     For example, if someone has a difficult time trying to lose weight, they may pose the question “Why can’t I lose weight?” Do you see how presupposingly negative this questions^[sic] is?