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Presupposition:
Assumption, or more specifically:
tacit assumption, implicit or implied assumption. All human
conscious reasoning is based on assumptions, and much of it involves
presuppositions, of which again a large part tends to be
prejudice.
There is nothing necessarily wrong or mistaken about presuppositions,
except that one cannot consciously reckon with what one is not conscious
of while tacitly using it.
Hence one important task of both philosophy
and logic, in practice, is the teasing out
of the presuppositions of arguments, both to see whether they entail or
support the conclusions they are used for, and to find out whether once
explicated they are true or probable or not.
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