false assumption

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandassumption

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition offalseandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse assumption

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Who would want to justify afalseassumption?
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As discussed above, this appears to be afalseassumption.
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Moreover, its ahistoricism leads to thefalseassumptionthat reform is a consequence of the preferences of particular agents.
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Colonial defence loans were politically, if not strategically, counter-productive, encouraging thefalseassumptionthat the colonies' defensive needs were being addressed.
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This charge rests on thefalseassumptionthat reproductive practices that are efficient from a cost-benefit standpoint will necessarily reduce the incidence of disease-causing genes.
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Thatfalseassumptionwill effectively seal off any fruitful future investigation of early jazz, for it will set investigators on the wrong track.
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A way of thinking about the neural bases of perception and action is needed that does not rest on thefalseassumptionthat the brain is the seat of consciousness.
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This suggests that universalist or functional reasons why these markers must appear in every language, including those acquired in non-canonical language-learning contexts, are based on afalseassumption.
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Franklin was intent on carrying out his orders, even though they had been based on thefalseassumptionthat he would have adequate food supplies.
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Laughter is an equally potent stimulus, although its power is often underestimated in our feel-good, be-happy culture, with itsfalseassumptionthat laughter is a response to humor.
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There seems to be a whollyfalseassumptionabout the whole question of capital transfer tax in relation to forestry and woodlands generally.
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That is the firstfalseassumptionunderlying the type of approach that we anticipate in relation to these hospitals.
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I think the kindest thing is to take no notice of his observations, which are based on an entirelyfalseassumption.
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Thefalseassumptionis that a firm is in business to meet peoples' needs: it is not.
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I am merely suggesting that the whole of his argument is based upon afalseassumption.
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That is an utterlyfalseassumption, so the validity of everything that he is saying is out of court.
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There is afalseassumptionthat size will give us efficiency.
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It is afalseassumptionand is wholly disproved by the facts.
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You receive that piece of paper and it is afalseassumptionthat that funding bond is in fact income.
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