Synonyms:
supposition, supposal
Meaning: the cognitive process of supposing
Synonyms:
assumption, supposition, supposal
Meaning: a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
Synonyms:
guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
Meaning: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
Usage examples
Let us content ourselves with this supposition.
By rigid experiments he proved the truth of this supposition.
I could not for a moment entertain Dick's supposition of a spirit.
The house of supposition, The glimmering frontier That skirts the acres of perhaps, To me shows insecure.
On this supposition matter may well be subject to mind; much more, if Jesus be the Son of God, his own body must be subject to his will.
"But I never said a word about the Emperor!" said the officer, justifying himself, and unable to understand Rostov's outburst, except on the supposition that he was drunk.
"The fact that the supposed deposits were so uniformly described as gelatinous substance forms a presumption in favor of the supposition that they had the origin ascribed to them."
That was as completely accounted for from the consideration of his excessive sensibility in matters of honour, as it would have been upon the supposition of the most atrocious guilt.
Hence I am led to believe that the females prefer or are most excited by the more brilliant males; for on any other supposition the males would, as far as we can see, be ornamented to no purpose.
According, therefore, to this supposition, nothing is preserved in the intellectual part that is not actually understood: wherefore it would not be possible to admit memory in the intellectual part.