suppositions

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Examples

I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction. Christiaan Huygens

.. Africa: it's a magic word that lends itselfs to suppositions and sets amateur explorers to dreaming. I want to try to be 'at home' on this bit of foreign [Arab] soil. Eugène Fromentin

Yet some Deists claimed to be Christian, and as Leslie Stephen argued in retrospect, the Deists shared so many fundamental rational suppositions with their orthodox opponents.. Source: Internet

At last, Mallam Shehu has grudgingly conceded that perhaps sceptics were right in some of their suppositions all along, particularly as it relates with the activities of herdsmen. Source: Internet

The Indian Hindu philosopher Madhva (1238–1317) in verse 400 of his Vishnu-Tattva-Nirnaya says: "dvidhAkalpane kalpanAgauravamiti" ("To make two suppositions when one is enough is to err by way of excessive supposition"). Source: Internet

The hero attracts much attention because most of those scenarios are based on the suppositions: what would have happened if this or that historical individual had or had not been alive. Source: Internet