https://jdavidstark.com/tags/presuppositions/ Recent content in Presuppositions on J. David Stark https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png https://jdavidstark.com/images/papermod-cover.png Hugo -- 0.165.0 en J. David Stark Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:00:19 +0000 https://jdavidstark.com/the-hermeneutic-productivity-of-the-familiar/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:00:19 +0000 http://jdavidstark.com/?p=15803 From the morass of the unfamiliar and strange, humans seem to acquire language or other forms of understanding by known quantities. https://jdavidstark.com/the-power-of-private-presuppositions/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:06:51 +0000 https://jdavidstark.com/the-power-of-private-presuppositions/ <p>Presuppositions that remain unacknowledged at least to oneself can still exercise strong influence. Indeed,</p> <blockquote> <p>[a] person who believes he is free of prejudices, relying on the objectivity of his procedures and denying that he is himself conditioned by historical circumstances, experiences the power of the prejudices that unconsciously dominate him as a vis a tergo. A person who does not admit that he is dominated by prejudices will fail to see what manifests itself by their light [because it will not be foregrounded from them] (<a href = "http://amzn.to/2sHCqv6" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >Gadamer, <em>Truth and Method</em>, 2006, 354</a> and <a href = "http://amzn.to/2u9L8GS" target = "_blank" rel = "nofollow noopener noreferrer" >Gadamer, <em>Truth and Method</em>, 2013, 369</a>).</p>