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To assume to be true or real for the sake of argument or explanation, To imply as an antecedent condition; presuppose, To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion, transitive verb_ To imagine; to believe; to receive as true, To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature, obsolete To put by fraud in the place of another, verb_ require as a necessary antecedent or precondition, take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand, expect, believe, or suppose

a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena, A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence, The antecedent of a conditional statement

Given, acknowledged as a supposition, (Logic, Rhetoric) Acknowledged or assumed as a supposition, adverb_ Used to concede a point, often before stating some contrasting information, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of grant, Given, awarded

Granted as a supposition; acknowledged or assumed, Bestowed as a gift; presented, Already arranged, noun_ an assumption that is taken for granted, A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation, verb_ Past participle of give