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  2. Axiom - Wikipedia

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    An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀξίωμα ( axíōma ), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.

  3. Assumption - Wikipedia

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    Assumption Cathedral (disambiguation) Church of the Assumption (disambiguation) Debt Assumption, the US policy under Alexander Hamilton to assume the war debt of some states; Entering heaven alive; L'Assomption River, Quebec, Canada; List of churches consecrated to Santa Maria Assunta ("Assunta" is the Italian for Assumption) Presupposition ...

  4. Hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    P is the assumption in a (possibly counterfactual) What If question. The adjective hypothetical, meaning "having the nature of a hypothesis", or "being assumed to exist as an immediate consequence of a hypothesis", can refer to any of these meanings of the term "hypothesis".

  5. Presupposition - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics and philosophy, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. Examples of presuppositions include: Jane no longer writes fiction. Presupposition: Jane once wrote fiction. Have you stopped eating meat?

  6. Shattered assumptions theory - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, shattered assumptions theory proposes that experiencing traumatic events can change how victims and survivors view themselves and the world. . Specifically, the theory – published by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman in 1992 – concerns the effect that negative events have on three inherent assumptions: overall benevolence of the world, meaningfulness of the world, and se

  7. Tacit assumption - Wikipedia

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    A tacit assumption or implicit assumption is an assumption that underlies a logical argument, course of action, decision, ...

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  9. -ing - Wikipedia

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    In the table that follows, the transformations produce grammatical sentences with similar meanings when applied to sentences with gerunds (since the transformations are based on the assumption that the phrase with the -ing word is a noun phrase). When applied to sentences with participles, they produce ungrammatical sentences or sentences with ...