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n. The act of supposing.

n. Something supposed; an assumption.

n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture

n. The act or an instance of supposing

n. The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

n. That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.

n. The act and mental result of hypothetical inference; that act of mind by which a likelihood is admitted in a proposition on account of the truth of its consequences; a presumption.

n. The act and mental result of formulating a proposition, without reference to its truth or falsity, for the sake of tracing out its consequences; a hypothesis.

n. In logic, the way in which a name is to be understood in a given proposition, in reference to its standing for an object of this or that class.

n. Substitution.

n. See the adjectives.

n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

n. a hypothesis that is taken for granted

n. the cognitive process of supposing

"I started out saying "if the authors are correct in their supposition that the rate of melting has greatly increased in the last several years", IOW everything following was based on the authors '(not my) * supposition* being true."

material    rule of supposition   

hypothesis    conjecture    surmise   

Deposition    Inquisition    Prohibition    Titian    abolition   

conjecture    hypothesis    assertions    inference    assumption