[ Thanks to helios for this link.
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“They are called cognitive presuppositions.
“That’s just a fancy way of saying something makes so much
logical sense that it would be silly to think of it any other way.
We’re not talking about assumptions here, although the two would be
easy enough to argue over in a semantics class. Cognitive
presuppositions are what we use to both gauge and make sense of our
world and we assume that the majority of people hold the same
belief… which might be a cognitive presupposition in itself. Here
are some examples that may or may not be entirely correct.
Regardless, you will see what we are talking about…”