Surmise vs Presupposition - What's the difference?
surmise | presupposition |
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
Reflection; thought; posit.
To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
* 2010 , Guy Deutscher, Through the Language Glass , Arrow 2011, p. 40:
The act of presupposing.
As a verb surmise
is .As a noun presupposition is
presupposition.surmise
English
Noun
(en noun)- surmises of jealousy or of envy
- No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
- The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
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English
Noun
(en noun)- He made one cardinal error in his presuppositions about the relation between language and perception, but in this he was far from alone.