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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7923344" data-attributes="member: 16814">Assumption is treating simething as if true without proof, not withoit evidence.&nbsp; Your definition equates assumption to wild guess, which isn't true as assumptions are often built on incomplete evidence and function quite nicely everyday.&nbsp; For instance, one assumes that crossing traffic is stopped when your light is green.&nbsp; We have no evidence this will remain true unless we observe crossing traffic through the entire light, at which point we've lost our opportunity to go.&nbsp; It's also a reasonable assumption, in that we.have lots of prior evidence that it most often true, and maybe immediate evidence that traffic we can see has, indeed, stopped.&nbsp; But, no proof until the light is done or we cross.&nbsp; This occurres every day among myriad assumptions that are evidence or experience based.I mean, Google is right there, if you don't believe me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 7923344, member: 16814"] Assumption is treating simething as if true without proof, not withoit evidence. Your definition equates assumption to wild guess, which isn't true as assumptions are often built on incomplete evidence and function quite nicely everyday. For instance, one assumes that crossing traffic is stopped when your light is green. We have no evidence this will remain true unless we observe crossing traffic through the entire light, at which point we've lost our opportunity to go. It's also a reasonable assumption, in that we.have lots of prior evidence that it most often true, and maybe immediate evidence that traffic we can see has, indeed, stopped. But, no proof until the light is done or we cross. This occurres every day among myriad assumptions that are evidence or experience based. I mean, Google is right there, if you don't believe me. [/QUOTE]

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