Believe vs Presuppose - What's the difference?
believe | presuppose | Synonyms |
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
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, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
Believe is a synonym of presuppose.
As verbs the difference between believe and presuppose
is that believe is (label) to accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (ie, as opposed to knowing) while presuppose is .believe
English
Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}