presuppose

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRESUPPO'SE, verb transitive presuppo'ze. [Eng. pre and suppose.] To suppose as previous; to imply as antecedent. The existence of created things presupposes the existence of a Creator. Each kind of knowledge presupposes many necessary things learned in other sciences and known beforehand.
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