The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presuppose \Pre`sup*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Presupposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Presupposing.] [Pref. pre- + suppose: cf. F. pr['e]supposer.] To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary
things learned in other sciences, and known beforehand.
--Hooker.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of presuppose English)
Usage examples of "presupposing".
For all negations (which really are the only predicates by which everything else is distinguished from the truly real being) are limitations only of a greater and, in the last instance, of the highest reality, presupposing it, and, according to their content, derived from it.
Thus arises a vicious circle by our presupposing what, in reality, ought to have been proved.
The monadists, however, have been clever enough to try to escape from this difficulty, by not admitting space as a condition of the possibility of the objects of external intuition (bodies), but by presupposing these and the dynamical relation of substances in general as the condition of the possibility of space.
Every action, as a phenomenon, so far as it produces an event, is itself an event, presupposing another state, in which its cause can be discovered.
I was presupposing that these mighty soldiers wouldn't want to sully themselves attacking a mere lame peasant.
First off, notice that when you envision this unified effort to build the ship, you are presupposing a society of total equals.