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Originally Posted by livius drusus
So prejudge and judge are the same thing? How about preheat and heat? Again, the prefix pre is a tool for indicating "beforehand" and does not make the compound word redundant.
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Well, I think I see where Goliath is coming from here, and I have to agree with him. "Suppose" means to make an assumption for the sake of argument, so presuppose means making an assumption for the sake of argument beforehand. Looks pretty superfluous to me.
I just took a look at the entry for presuppose at dictionary.com. In every single case, replacing presuppose with suppose in the examples given for usage will leave the meaning of the sentence completely unchanged. Can you think of a use of "presuppose" where replacing it with "suppose" would change the meaning of the sentence?
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Really? I've never actually heard anyone (xian or atheist) use it in real life, and I've only seen xians use it online.
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Counting hits and not misses, I suspect. I could link you to a dozen instances of its use all over the internet. Here's one from a political discussion I was involved in on II recently.
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I may be falling prey to the same hit vs miss fallacy, but as far as I can recall, the first time I ever saw the word used was in a philosophical discussion about EoG, and a school of thought I'd never heard of called presuppositionalism. My first thought on seeing the term was "that's redundant," and my second was that the name implies circular reasoning.