Thus, in the Lynceus of Theodectes, the Complication consists of the incidents presupposed in the drama, the seizure of the child, and then again * * extends from the accusation of murder to the end.

I had never heard in the theatre lines that were alive, that presupposed and took for granted, like those which passed between Varville and Marguerite in the brief encounter before her friends entered.

He perceived that such a picture presupposed, on her part, the experience, the versatility, the freedom of judgment, which she had been carefully trained not to possess; and with a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

German Socialism forgot, in the nick of time, that the French criticism, whose silly echo it was, presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society, with its corresponding economic conditions of existence, and the political constitution adapted thereto, the very things whose attainment was the object of the pending struggle in Germany.

Therefore he reasoned that wickedness presupposed a small and worthless soul, or the entire lack of one.

In the present lecture I shall attempt the analysis of memory-knowledge, both as an introduction to the problem of knowledge in general, and because memory, in some form, is presupposed in almost all other knowledge.

Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed.

It presupposed that the President actually admitted to murder.

After discussing three forms of scientific naturalism--eliminative, reductive, and nonreductive naturalism--the author turns to the idea of nature that scientific naturalism presupposes, and argues that the presupposed idea of nature is inadequate: It does not include everything in nature.

According to Maduro, the plan presupposed his physical removal and a simultaneous attack on Syria.

The presupposition set thus determined constrains the class of contexts where the sentence can be felicitously used, since a sentence can be used to update only the information states which entail the presupposed propositions.