Assumption

//əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n//

"Assumption" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Basic to the argument is the assumption that the rules in question are present in the language.

What he said bears out my assumption.

Your assumption that his death was an accident seems to be wrong.

She put on an assumption of ignorance.

The facts don't correspond with your assumption.

Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.

How much confidence exists that this assumption is correct?

We can't make that assumption.

Israel's security policy cannot rely on the assumption that the dictators of the Arab countries will retain power forever.

That's a safe assumption.

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His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.

Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.

No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.

Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.

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