Science, it is said, only maintains those principles and presuppositions which are necessary to the simplest and clearest orientation in the world of experience. All assumptions which cannot be applied to experience and to practical work, will successively be eliminated.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The ultimate and unchallenged presupposition of the old view was that religion was a DOCTRINE, a body of supposed truths. It was in fact what we should now call Theology, and what the ancients called Mythology. Ritual was scarcely considered at all, and, when considered, it was held to be a form in which beliefs, already defined and fixed as dogma, found a natural mode of expression. This, it will be later shown, is a profound error or rather a most misleading half-truth. Creeds, doctrines, theology and the like are only a part, and at first the least important part, of religion.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
___(c) The Process of Isolation
�� 251 The chemical process has its products as a presupposition. �� 252 The decomposition of water into opposed moments. �� 253 Oxidation. �� 254 Nitrogen. �� 255 Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon,. �� 256 Salt. �� 257 Empirical chemistry orders the products according to superficial and abstract
determinations. �� 258 The chemical process is, in general terms, life.英文原著 · 《Philosophy of Nature》
At the same time it is the notion alone which,
in the act of supposing itself, makes its presupposition; as has been made
apparent in causality in general and especially in reciprocal action.英文原著 · 《Shorter Logic》
SS 22. The necessity of the universal assent that is thought in a judgement of taste, is a subjective necessity which, under the presupposition of a common sense, is represented as objective.英文原著 · 《The Critique of Judgement》