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noun

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.

That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. "This is only an infallibility upon supposition that if a thing be true, it is imposible to be false." "He means are in supposition."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Supposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... shores of Virginia. I scarcely knew whether to grieve or to rejoice at the prospect thus held out to me. Of course, I could not but regret that my countrymen were about to carry the war into the very part of the country where Madeline, I believed, was residing; at the same time, under the supposition that such would be done, I rejoiced at the thoughts that I might meet her, or might render her or her family assistance. Still I would not venture to reckon much on the prospect of our meeting. Numberless ...

— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston

... a supposition that had never occurred to Howard before, but which he saw was very reasonable. All Indians not belonging to the same tribe might be supposed to be enemies of each other, and thus the mercy and kindness of our young heroes might be made the means of ...

— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis

... lain above it with your rifle, and waited for the bait to bring up your tiger? This empty house is my tree and you are my tiger. You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. These," he pointed around, "are my other guns. The parallel ...

— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle

... not a vagrant or a stroller, sir," said Jeanie, a little roused by the supposition. "I am a decent Scots lass, travelling through the land on my own business and my own expenses and I was so unhappy as to fall in with bad company, and was stopped a' night on my journey. And this puir creature, ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... substances do not consist of simple parts; in this case, if all combination or composition were annihilated in thought, no composite part, and (as, by the supposition, there do not exist simple parts) no simple part would exist. Consequently, no substance; consequently, nothing would exist. Either, then, it is impossible to annihilate composition in thought; or, after such annihilation, there must ...

— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant

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