presuppositionalism

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Etymology edit

presuppositional +‎ -ism

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presuppositionalism (uncountable)

  1. (theology) A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought.
    • 2004, Jerrold J. Katz, Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, page 115:
      It is sometimes supposed that extensional propositions—in particular Russellian propositions, which are adopted in some neo-Millian views about proper names—are incompatible with intensionalism and presuppositionalism.

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