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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Thesis :: Thesis (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis..
Supposed :: Supposal (n.) The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion..
Presupposition :: Presupposition (n.) That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
Give :: Give (n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.
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..
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition..
Suppressed :: Supposure (n.) Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture.
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..
Presumptively :: Presumptively (adv.) By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably..
Presupposition :: Presupposition (n.) The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
If :: If (conj.) In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition..
Suppositor :: Suppositive (n.) A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc..
Supposeer :: Suppose (n.) 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..
Urohaematin :: Urohaematin (n.) Urinary haematin; -- applied to the normal coloring matter of the urine, on the supposition that it is formed either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the haematin of the blood. See Urochrome, and Urobilin..
Estimation :: Estimation (v. t.) Supposition; conjecture.
Conditional :: Conditional (a.) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense..
Position :: Position (n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
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..
Suppositive :: Supposititious (a.) Suppositional; hypothetical.
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