Supposition
noun
An idea or theory that you believe is true even though you don't have concrete proof.
It's been a common supposition that the weather changes can be attributed to global warming.
Often appears as...
- based on supposition
- common supposition
noun
A belief or idea that is accepted as the base for some action, argument, or theory.
The entire argument is based on a shaky supposition.
Often appears as...
- shaky supposition
- accepted supposition
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Formal
Academic
noun
An idea or theory that you believe is true even though you don't have concrete proof.
It's been a common supposition that the weather changes can be attributed to global warming.
Often appears as...
- based on supposition
- common supposition
noun
A belief or idea that is accepted as the base for some action, argument, or theory.
The entire argument is based on a shaky supposition.
Often appears as...
- shaky supposition
- accepted supposition
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Proof Not Required
Supposition doesn't need proof, but it's based on some reason or belief.
Her supposition that the keys were in the car was correct, even though she hadn't checked.
Pro Tip 2/3Likely True
A supposition is often something you think is true or likely, rather than a wild guess.
His supposition that the traffic would be heavy at this hour was logical.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Starter
Use supposition to introduce an idea you're not sure about but want to discuss.
I'm working on the supposition that she'll be late, so let's wait a bit longer.
Pro Tip 1/3Proof Not Required
Supposition doesn't need proof, but it's based on some reason or belief.
Her supposition that the keys were in the car was correct, even though she hadn't checked.
Pro Tip 2/3Likely True
A supposition is often something you think is true or likely, rather than a wild guess.
His supposition that the traffic would be heavy at this hour was logical.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Starter
Use supposition to introduce an idea you're not sure about but want to discuss.
I'm working on the supposition that she'll be late, so let's wait a bit longer.
Pro Tip 1/3Proof Not Required
Supposition doesn't need proof, but it's based on some reason or belief.
Her supposition that the keys were in the car was correct, even though she hadn't checked.
Pro Tip 2/3Likely True
A supposition is often something you think is true or likely, rather than a wild guess.
His supposition that the traffic would be heavy at this hour was logical.
Pro Tip 3/3Conversation Starter
Use supposition to introduce an idea you're not sure about but want to discuss.
I'm working on the supposition that she'll be late, so let's wait a bit longer.
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6 ways mushrooms can...
because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores. And so I came up with a Life Box, because I needed a delivery system. The Life Box -- you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference -- you add soil, you add water,
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Wombats Poo Cubes! PIPE...
supposition and some nonsense scientists have actually discovered why wombat poo is cubed yes and it comes down to those intestines not only does the food stay in there for two weeks most it also has very long intestines now your average wombat is about a meter in length but its
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COVID-19, Humans, and...
still the strong a supposition of where it came from we're gonna hear it a little bit from Rodrigo that this does not mean that bats are but the whole bass for bad or dangerous quite the opposite that what we need to think about safe living with
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6 ways mushrooms can...
because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores. And so I came up with a Life Box, because I needed a delivery system. The Life Box -- you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference -- you add soil, you add water,
Video examples
Wombats Poo Cubes! PIPE...
supposition and some nonsense scientists have actually discovered why wombat poo is cubed yes and it comes down to those intestines not only does the food stay in there for two weeks most it also has very long intestines now your average wombat is about a meter in length but its
Video examples
COVID-19, Humans, and...
still the strong a supposition of where it came from we're gonna hear it a little bit from Rodrigo that this does not mean that bats are but the whole bass for bad or dangerous quite the opposite that what we need to think about safe living with
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Quote examples
Paul Zane Pilzer
American Economist
The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.
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Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.
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Rory MacLean
Canadian Historian
The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.
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Joe Morton
American Actor
Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.
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Claire Scovell LaZebnik
American Author
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Grace Kelly
American Actress
I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I'm bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.
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Anne Sullivan
American Educator
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.
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Emma Willard
American Activist
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
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George Washington
American President
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
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Paul Zane Pilzer
American Economist
The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.
Quote examples
Sherwin B. Nuland
American Scientist
The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.
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Rory MacLean
Canadian Historian
The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.
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Joe Morton
American Actor
Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.
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Claire Scovell LaZebnik
American Author
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Grace Kelly
American Actress
I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I'm bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.
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Anne Sullivan
American Educator
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.
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Emma Willard
American Activist
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
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George Washington
American President
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
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