Presupposition (disambiguation)

In linguistics, a presupposition of a statement is a proposition which must be true in order for the statement to make sense.

Presupposition may also refer to:

Presupposition (philosophy), in epistemology, requirements for a belief system to make sense
Presuppositional apologetics, argues that the existence or non-existence of God is the basic presupposition of all human thought

See also

Complex question, a fallacy

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