On the Basic Focus Marker, and the Basic Focus Sentence, in Akan (Twi) by Seth Antwi Ofori

“…The basic focus marker, we argue, is an equational copula/verb that joins a focused-unit and a presuppositional-constituent, the aim of which is to demand, assert, or achieve definiteness. …”
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The Concept of Akrasia in D. Husak’s Theory of Criminal Responsibility and the Advantages of Its Alternative by Gediminas Šataitis

“…In his theory, Husak employs the concept of akrasia related to moral knowledge-ignorance, albeit sourcing its presuppositions from contemporary skeptics rather than from ancient philosophy. …”
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When Bodies Speak Differently: Putting Judith Butler in Conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance by Louise Du Toit, Jana Vosloo

“…Although we focus on Gandhi’s more activist side, by delving into the ontological presuppositions that Butler and Gandhi share, we can do some justice to how his activism is firmly rooted in a faith-based understanding of the world. …”
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Phenomenology as a research methodology in teaching English as a foreign language by Alireza Bonyadi

“…The paper concludes that an appropriate application of phenomenology to EFL issues will help language teaching practitioners to broaden their understanding of pedagogical issues through learning from the experiences of teachers and students making them to re-evaluate their presuppositions on numerous educational issues.…”
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Dutch Responses to Lockdown Liturgies. Analysis of the Public Debate on Sacraments During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Samuel Goyvaerts, Fokke Wouda

“…This categorization helps to track the theological presuppositions involved, some of which have been explicitly articulated in the sample. …”
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Metaphysics of Presence With Husserl by محمد فرحه

“…Thus, we shall prove that Husserl possesses a presuppositions which is the metaphysics of presence. …”
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The Concept of Akrasia in D. Husak’s Theory of Criminal Responsibility and the Advantages of Its Alternative by Gediminas Šataitis

“…In his theory, Husak employs the concept of akrasia related to moral knowledge-ignorance, albeit sourcing its presuppositions from contemporary skeptics rather than from ancient philosophy. …”
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The Changing Geography of Debt and IMF's Involvement: From Global to European South by Theofanis Papageorgiou, Iason Rousopoulos, Sotiris Koskoletos

“…In this article, we try to evaluate the fiscal and political presuppositions of the IMF's recent history toward crediting countries, focusing particularly in the case of Greece. …”
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The debate on shared parenting in Germany by Johannes Carl Busse

“…The paper analyses secondary sources of key participants in the debate against the backdrop of the presuppositions of an ideal communicative structure of rationality, reflection, inclusiveness, and truthfulness. …”
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Queering Jihad in South Africa: Islam, Queerness, and Liberative Praxis by Mujahid Osman

“…In this articulation, queer Muslims play with their inherited traditions of liberation, challenging its presuppositions, and expanding its contours. This essay argues that these queer Muslims read liberation traditions through their experience and praxis which guide their orientations toward theological meaning-making and community practice. …”
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Questioning assumptions….and practices! by Editorial Team of Babylonia

“…Even if, in this issue of Babylonia, we focus on the presuppositions that shape language teaching, we see our approach as a first step in the direction of reconciling subjective opinions and empirically based arguments. …”
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Gender Ideologies in English and Slovene: A Contrastive View by Katja Plemenitaš

“…Strategies for non-sexist expression and their rebuttals are discussed in the context of predominant cultural ideologies about gender and presuppositions regarding the link between social change and linguistic reform.…”
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Cent ans de relations géographie physique/géographie humaine : innovation ou statu quo ? by Pierre Pech

“…The Critical Physical Geography, little developed in France, allows to shed light on the motivations and presuppositions of this French geography seen through the BAGF and for which it is possible to formulate a certain number of recommendations.…”
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The Ontological Foundation of Allameh Tabatabaei’s View on "Nafs Al-amr" and Some Comment on his Critics’ Views by Dr jafar shanazari, Ahmad Sadeghi

“…The complications result from the existential presuppositions of the theory. In these circumstances Allameh-Tabatabei has offered his own interpretation of “Nafs al-Amr”. …”
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Critical reading of online news commentary headlines: Stylistic and pragmatic aspects by Dykstra Alan

“…In doing a critical reading of news commentary headlines drawn from a corpus, this study uses critical stylistics as an initial tool for delineating the headlines’ textual, ideational and interpersonal features and also for categorizing them according to the main type of triggering located in their respective textual-conceptual functions. Presuppositions are found to be a key device in constructing the headlines’ ideational “text-worlds”, which can strategically activate readers’ “belief systems knowledge” and rapidly validate or shape their attitudes regarding social reality, even when a headline is being scanned and read autonomously on a mobile device platform. …”
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The tyranny of the definite article: some thoughts on the art of intellectual history by Young, B

“…It challenges many of the presuppositions of Bevir's study, demonstrating that <em>The Logic of the History of Ideas</em> is not, in any meaningful sense, an historically minded work. …”

Diaspora, ethnic internationalism and higher education internationalization: the Korean and Jewish cases as stateless nations in the early 20th century by Kim, T, Bamberger, A

“…This article challenges such presuppositions by separating ‘nation’ and ‘state’ and with a critical appropriation of diasporic subjectivity and institutions from a comparative historical perspective. …”

Fixed Reference to Divine Realm by Hamed Ghadiri

“…In this paper, extending Putnam’s model-theoretic argument in metaphysics, I argue that this conditional statement could be true, and thereby the transcendence of the divine realm and conventional reference to that realm would be irreconcilable unless we adjust at least one of our presuppositions. I will show just three ways for this adjustment: Internal pluralism that says that the divine realm is mind-dependent; Some versions of apophatic theology according to which one cannot assert a true utterance about the divine realm; Claiming that language is a non-human phenomenon.…”
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Taking care of children´s family on sexual abuse situation considering the humanistic theory. A phenomenological study by Lygia Maria Pereira da Silva, Marli Terezinha Gimeniz Galvão, Thelma Leite de Araújo, Maria Vera Lúcia Moreira Leitão Cardoso

“…The data was collected in November 2005 and analysed with reference to the presuppositions of Paterson &amp; Zderad’s Nursing Humanistic Theory. …”
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A Stylistic Exploration of Headlines in Ghanaian Newspaper Editorials by James Gyimah Manu, Wisdom Mawuli Awuttey, Philip Kwame Freitas

“…It was revealed that Ghanaian editors employ several linguistic forms to trigger presuppositions and also use language devices or figures in order to affect the opinions of their readers, shape their understanding, and increase their interest to read the main text. …”
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