Presupposed Quotes
- Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
- The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode… — Arthur Schuster
- Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually… — William Ames
- Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno
- What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to… — Charles Francis Richter