Supposition

Examples

• Supposing then, for instance--any unlikely thing will do for a supposition--that you and your mother were to have a serious quarrel. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His supposition was tested on a chur ch steeple at Paris, and, later, on the Puy de D?me, a mountain in Au vergne. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is impossible, on any other supposition, to account, situated as she is, for her execution to a deed of any kind being wanted at all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is a more probable supposition than murder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The object or cause of this pleasure is, by the supposition, related to self, or the object of pride. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• When disproved, it is shown to have been a false supposition; when proved, it is no longer hypothetic. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But that this latter supposition is absurd, I easily convince myself by the consideration of my clear ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Such a supposition would be justified from Section 102. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The supposition of the continued existence of sensible objects or perceptions involves no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is but a supposition, Mr Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I can answer these questions and objections only on the supposition that the geological record is far more imperfect than most geologists believe. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• All this I was forced to define and describe by putting cases and making suppositions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why then look any farther, or multiply suppositions without necessity? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The absurdity of the two last suppositions proves sufficiently the veracity of the firSt. Nor is there any fourth opinion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But, say that the event was to be, as the event fell out, and how idle are such suppositions! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He let the kindly suppositions pass. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I cannot conceive how such trivial qualities of the fancy, conducted by such false suppositions, can ever lead to any solid and rational system. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But if we deny this, we must make one of the two following highly improbable suppositions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I think it was you who were first hasty in your false suppositions about my feeling, said Dorothea, in the same tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Meredith