assumption
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English
Etymology
From Middle English assumpcioun, from Medieval Latin assumptio (“a taking up (into heaven)”) and Latin assumptio (“a taking up, adoption, the minor proposition of a syllogism”). Doublet of assumptio; see assume.
Pronunciation
Noun
assumption (countable and uncountable, plural assumptions)
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- 1976, “The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 10”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1]:
- No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “William Tyndale other wise Called William Hychins vnto the Reader”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio xix, recto:
- Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself
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supposition
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thing supposed
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the minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism
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taking of a person up into heaven
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festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven
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Further reading
- “assumption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “assumption”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
References
- ^ The Chambers Dictionary, 9th Ed., 2003
- ^ “assumption”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “assumption”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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