English Dictionary

presupposition

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹiː.sʌ.pəˈzɪ.ʃ(ə)n/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation. / The act of presupposing. / (linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.

日本語の意味

あらかじめなされた仮定、予備的な推測 / 仮定を行う行為 / 言語学において、言説に内在する暗黙の前提や信念

Her argument relied on the presupposition that everyone had access to reliable internet.

彼女の議論は、誰もが安定したインターネット接続を利用できるという前提に基づいていた。

意味（1）

An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.

He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.

意味（2）

The act of presupposing.

意味（3）

(linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.

For instance: a verb might convey someone's evaluation of it as a presupposition. To say ‘they deprived him of a visit to his parents’ presupposes that he wanted to visit (vs. ‘spare him a visit...’).

presuppositions （ plural ）