assumption

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of taking possession of or power over something

   Their assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of assuming or taking for granted

   your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted

3. 3
   noun

   a hypothesis that is taken for granted

   any society is built upon certain assumptions

4. 4
   noun

   a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

   Their assumption of my actions were unfounded.

5. 5
   noun

   The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

   His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

   No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.

8. 8
   noun

   The taking of a person up into heaven.

   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.

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.