Examples of 'supposition' in a sentence

Meaning of "supposition"

Supposition is an uncertain belief or assumption based on scanty evidence
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  • Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
  • The act or an instance of supposing.

How to use "supposition" in a sentence

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We have no need for supposition or false excitement.
A supposition not supported by the transporter records.
I am working on the supposition that she is a taken.
Supposition that he was the author of the latter.
A hypothesis is a supposition made as a basis for reasoning.
There is nothing discreditable about such a supposition.
That supposition does not leave this room.
But he suggests the supposition of his death.
Such a supposition is directly contradicted by geological evidence.
Darwin would be very interested in your supposition.
Act upon the supposition that it exists.
This is called confused and distributive supposition.
What was then a supposition is now an established fact.
The context appears to support that supposition.
But this is all supposition and intuition.

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A supposition that turned out to be the correct.
But there is no authority for this supposition.
Thus our supposition is a key to many wonders.
Our son is laboring under the supposition.
The simplest supposition which accords with.
If you are looking for proof of the supposition.
In the supposition of the infraction foreseen in the.
All you have got is a load of supposition.
That supposition greatly damages simple passages.
This is only the first necessary supposition.
The supposition that our prime goal.
My first statement you have quoted is a supposition.
The supposition that these large mammals.
The media have represented supposition as fact.
Their ridiculous supposition that war is akin to civilization.
It is enough to merely provide innuendo and supposition.
This supposition is juristically wrong and logically untenable.
So we are simply picking one supposition for another.
The first supposition does not apply to us.
We use the conditional to express a supposition or a condition.
This is a supposition based on the story of a dead witness.
There is no empirical evidence to support this supposition.
That is a ridiculous supposition without a shred of proof to back it up.
All the reasons are against such a supposition.
All you have got is supposition and coincidence.
All the evidence is against the supposition.
As is the supposition that she dragged the body.
So that this is the only admissible supposition.
This supposition was confirmed by other analyses.
Recent facts confirm this melancholy supposition.
We are working with the supposition that he passed it on to someone.
Let us add some more to this supposition.
That is the smallest supposition implied by the body.
Question every fact and every supposition.
This kind of personal supposition is called discrete supposition.

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