something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoningthe cynic's presupposition that everyone acts out of purely selfish motives
the cynic's presupposition that everyone acts out of purely selfish motives
assumption, given, hypothetical, if, postulate, premise(also premiss), presumption, supposition
hypothesis, proposition, theory, thesisaxiom, truism, veritybelief, canon, doctrine, dogma, gospel, lawprecept, principle, rule, standard, tenetbasis, foundation, groundconclusion, deduction, inferenceaffirmation, assertion, avouchment, declarationdictum, ipse dixit
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