What is an assumption?
ASSUMPTION noun
1. The act of taking to one's self.
2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition.
3. The thing supposed; a postulate or proposition assumed.ASSUME verb, transitive
To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; as, to assume a principle in reasoning.
What is a presumption?
PRESUMPTION noun
Supposition of the truth or real existence of something without direct or positive proof of the fact, but grounded on circumstantial or probable evidence which entitles it to belief.PRESUME verb, transitive
To take or suppose to be true or entitled to belief, without examination or positive proof, or on the strength of probability. We presume that a man is honest, who has not been known to cheat or deceive; but in this we are sometimes mistaken.
What is a supposition?
SUPPOSITION noun
1. The act of laying down, imagining or admitting as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
2. The position of something known not to be true or not proved; hypothesis.
3. Imagination; belief without full evidence.SUPPOSE verb, transitive
1. To lay down or state as a proposition or face that may exist or be true, though not known or believed to be true or to exist; or to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration.
2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
What is a lie?
LIE noun
1. A criminal falsehood; a falsehood uttered for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth.
2. A fiction. (That which is feigned, invented or imagined.)
3. False doctrine.
4. An idolatrous picture of God, or a false god.
5. That which deceives and disappoints confidence.LIE verb, intransitive
1. To utter falsehood with an intention to deceive, or with an immoral design.
2. To exhibit a false representation; to say or do that which deceives another, when he has a right to know the truth, or when morality requires a just representation.