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Something accepted as true for the purpose of reasoning, without necessarily having been established.

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assumption

The plan rested on an assumption that the room would be available every evening.
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For a class project, Daniel designed a poster claiming that students ignored notices printed on yellow paper. His assumption came from one crowded hallway, where several notices seemed untouched.
From Testing the Claim Behind the Poster.
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