Definition of supposition

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Supposition (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..

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Suppressed :: Supposure (n.) Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.
Postulate :: Postulate (n.) Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence..
Estimation :: Estimation (v. t.) Supposition; conjecture.
Presupposition :: Presupposition (n.) That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
Admissible :: Admissible (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible..
Position :: Position (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
Thesis :: Thesis (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis..
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition..
Suppositor :: Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc..
Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis..
Supposition :: Supposition (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..
Presumptively :: Presumptively (adv.) By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably..
Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal..
Suppositive :: Supposititious (a.) Suppositional; hypothetical.
Opination :: Opination (n.) The act of thinking; a supposition.
Should :: Should (imp.) Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go..
Suppose :: Suppose (v. i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
Supposeer :: Suppose (n.) Supposition.
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim..
Supposititious :: Suppositional (a.) Resting on supposition; hypothetical; conjectural; supposed.
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