presupposes: kelime anlamı ve tanımları

To believe or suppose in advance:"In passing moral judgments .. we presuppose that a man's actions, and hence also his being a good or a bad man, are in his power"(Leo Strauss).

To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition:"The term tax relief .. presupposes a conceptual metaphor: Taxes are an affliction"(George Lakoff).