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  2. 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 ...

  3. Assumption of Mary - Wikipedia

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    Pope Pius XII expressed in his encyclical Munificentissimus Deus the hope that the belief in the bodily assumption of the virgin Mary into heaven "will make our belief in our own resurrection stronger and render it more effective", [4] while the Catechism of the Catholic Church adds: "The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular ...

  4. Debt assumption - Wikipedia

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    Debt Assumption, or simply assumption, was a US financial policy executed under the Funding Act of 1790.The Washington administration pursued the policy, under Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's leadership, to assume the outstanding debt of states that had not yet repaid their American Revolutionary War bonds and a scrip.

  5. 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'.

  6. Extraordinary assumptions and hypothetical conditions

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    Extraordinary assumptions are defined as assumptions, directly related to a specific assignment, which, if found to be false, could alter the appraiser's opinions or conclusions. A comment to the definition explain that extraordinary assumptions presume as fact otherwise uncertain information

  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, or judgment that is not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker or judge.

  8. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    [56] [failed verification] Or the assumption that people or animals are male in the absence of any indicators of gender. [ 57 ] Sexual overperception bias , the tendency to overestimate sexual interest of another person in oneself, and sexual underperception bias , the tendency to underestimate it.

  9. Difference in differences - Wikipedia

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    Difference in differences (DID [1] or DD [2]) is a statistical technique used in econometrics and quantitative research in the social sciences that attempts to mimic an experimental research design using observational study data, by studying the differential effect of a treatment on a 'treatment group' versus a 'control group' in a natural experiment. [3]