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Pronunciation spelling of supposing. [The act of making a supposition.]
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(law) for the sake of argument; assuming without deciding; identifying the premises of a hypothetical argument while making it clear that no finding is being made on whether the premises are true.
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(countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
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(obsolete) That which is assumed; an assumption.
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The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
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assuming; prone to assume things or take them for granted
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advisement; observation; deliberation.
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A sentence wherein one wrongly assumes that one truth applies to a vast set of possibilities
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(law) A matter that is deemed by law to be true, and therefore provides no opportunity for evidence to the contrary to be presented.
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(law) Presumed by law to be true, and therefore providing no opportunity for evidence to the contrary to be presented.
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(formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
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The rhetorical question "Who benefits?", as used to establish motive for a crime etc.
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Serving to declare or explain
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(slang) An assertion that something not satisfactorily explained by science is therefore evidence of some powerful entity's unseen intervention.
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A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
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Of or pertaining to an estimate or to estimation.
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(law) Of or pertaining to evidence.
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An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
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(archaic) Action; the realm of action.
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The determination of factual information.
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To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
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(law) in fact; by the act or fact
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A conjecture; an assumption.
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A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
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A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
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(by extension) A situation in which there is insufficient information, requiring participants to rely on conjecture.
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An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
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(transitive, of a person) to suggest by logical inference
n
Opinion; intimation; hint.
adj
Under consideration, under discussion.
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That which is insinuated; a hint; a suggestion, innuendo or intimation by distant allusion
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(law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
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An unfounded, false and dogmatic assertion; an ipse dixit.
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Characteristic of a justification
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An assumption, not necessarily true, made by a court in order to apply a legal rule.
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The phenomenon of seeking out rational arguments in favor of a conclusion already reached for non-rational (chiefly emotional) reasons.
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A judgement based on observing.
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The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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(now rare) Implying actual presence; present.
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(transitive) To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
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the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true
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Making presumptions; behaving as one who presumes, who assumes that which they perhaps should not.
v
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
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A surmise previously formed.
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(law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.
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The act of making a promise.
n
Alternative spelling of raison d'être [Reason for being. The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone.]
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Reason for being. The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone.
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A justification or rationalization for something.
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A motive for an action or a determination.
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Pertaining to, or containing, redargution; refutatory.
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A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect.
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A sudden revelation that completely contradicts the assumptions one has been led to believe.
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Pronunciation spelling of suppose. [(transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.]
adv
For example; let us assume.
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(obsolete) An act of looking at something; examination, observation.
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Pronunciation spelling of suppose. [(transitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.]
n
(law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence
adj
Obsolete form of supposed. [Presumed to be true, but without proof]
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Something supposed; a supposition, a hypothesis.
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(transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
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Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
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(obsolete) supposition; conjecture
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(obsolete) Estimation; estimate; considered opinion.
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Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
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(grammar) A question inviting the listener to indicate agreement, formed by adding a “tag” word or expression to a statement. For example “You love me, don’t you?”.
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(law) presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
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Presumption, imagination, supposition.
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An intent or purpose; a why.
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(fused relative) The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
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