Presuppositions

Presuppositions literally means assumptions. In natural language, the presuppositions are what is assumed by the sentence — the information that must be accepted as true for the sentence to make sense. They are useful in 'hearing between the lines' and also for communicating to someone using assumptions that will have to be accepted by the listener so that the communication makes sense. In the Milton Model, presuppositions are used to embed suggestions that bypass conscious resistance by being assumed rather than stated.