- 1假設、臆測、推測之詞（常帶「沒有證據」的意味）
A supposition is an idea you are treating as true without proof — a starting assumption. It can be countable ("That's only a supposition") or uncountable ("The report is based on pure supposition"). The word carries a mild warning: calling something a supposition is a way of saying it has not been tested, so it turns up a lot in arguments, court reports, and academic writing, usually next to words like *mere*, *pure*, or *based on*. It is more formal than *guess* and less scientific than *hypothesis*: a guess can be idle, a hypothesis is something you set up on purpose to test, but a supposition is simply a thing being taken for granted so the thinking can move on. In everyday classrooms you will meet *assumption* far more often; treat *supposition* as its cousin, useful when you want to sound careful in writing.
組成From Latin sub- (under) + positio (a placing), from ponere (to put). So: an idea put underneath an argument to hold it up — you set it down first and build on top of it.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
suppositionnoun/ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən/
- 1
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
- The supposition that Geoffrey had been chloroformed was a reasonable hypothesis at that stage of the disclosure.
- The supposition would therefore have to be that socialism will owe its success to a higher degree of labour productivity than is possible under capitalism.
- 2
The act or an instance of supposing.
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