Surmise vs Assumption - What's the difference?
surmise | assumption |
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.
The act of assuming]], or taking to or upon one's self; the act of [[take up, taking up or adopting.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
* {{quote-journal, year=1976, author=, title=The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 10
, passage=No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.}}
(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
The taking of a person up into heaven.
A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
(rhetoric) Assumptio.
As nouns the difference between surmise and assumption
is that surmise is thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess while assumption is the act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.As a verb surmise
is to conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.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.
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Verb
(surmis)External links
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English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.
- Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.
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