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Conclusion vs Presumption - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between conclusion and presumption

is that conclusion is an estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position while presumption is arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect.

As nouns the difference between conclusion and presumption

is that conclusion is the end, finish, close or last part of something while presumption is the act of presuming, or something presumed.

conclusion

English

(wikipedia conclusion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • * Prescott
    • A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.
  • The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • A decision reached after careful thought.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
    The board has come to the conclusion that the proposed takeover would not be in the interest of our shareholders.
  • *
    • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions' are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound ' conclusions . Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you geth
  • (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • * Addison
    • He granted him both the major and minor, but denied him the conclusion .
  • (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • We practice likewise all conclusions of grafting and inoculating.
  • (legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • (legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
    • (Wharton)

    Related terms

    * conclude * conclusive

    Antonyms

    * (end) beginning, initiation, start

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) premise

    presumption

    English

    (wikipedia presumption)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of presuming, or something presumed
  • * De Quincey
    • in contradiction to these very plausible presumptions
  • the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true
    • The presumption is that an event has taken place.
  • the condition upon which something is presumed
  • (dated) arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thy son I killed for his presumption .
  • * Dryden
    • I had the presumption to dedicate to you a very unfinished piece.

    Synonyms

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