Presupposition
"Presupposition" in a Sentence (2 examples)
He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.
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...’).
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