supposition

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Good grief, what a vast amount of supposition backed up by very little evidence or insight.

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Quick take

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of supposition gathered in one view.

noun

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

noun

a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

noun

the cognitive process of supposing

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for supposition.

noun

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

noun

a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

noun

the cognitive process of supposing

Example sentences

Good grief, what a vast amount of supposition backed up by very little evidence or insight.

I'd be doubly reluctant to call them arrogant whilst panning their design based on nothing but instinct and supposition.

I think we all can come to the conclusion to why that is...As to your supposition that no amount of 'junk' would stop pirates, I do beg to differ.

"Based on my training and experience" seems like boilerplate for whenever a supposition is introduced.

Nitpick: That heat ferried by the gulf stream is what warns the Baltic is a quasi-religious supposition from the father of oceanography.

This is the limit of your supposition: a moment of supreme realization and an achievement that only a few among billions could hope for, lasting as short a time as could matter to a human being.

The supposition here is that since magnetic scanners are being removed and replaced with xray scanners, which do not have the feature of detecting metal with magnetic fields, the new machines are more ineffective than the old magnetic scanners.