Usually means: Assumed background belief in communication.
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  1. presupposition: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. presupposition: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. presupposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. Presupposition (disambiguation), Presupposition (philosophy), Presupposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Presupposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. presupposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. presupposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. presupposition: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. Presupposition: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. presupposition: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. presupposition: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See presuppose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (presupposition)

noun:  An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
noun:  The act of presupposing.
noun:  (linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.

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