Presuppositionalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought. uncountable

    "It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism."

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"It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism."

Etymology

From presuppositional + -ism.

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