noun. The act of supposing.

noun. Something supposed; an assumption.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. Substitution.

noun. See the adjectives.

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. The act or an instance of supposing

noun. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

noun. a hypothesis that is taken for granted

noun. 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  

Deposition  Inquisition  Prohibition  Titian  abolition  

accusation  analogy  assertion  assertions  assumption  

allegory  allusion  apprehension  apriorism  arcane meaning