“How is a reader of your posts suppose to know when the great boogieman is assuming or telling the facts?”
Well, when the facts in question involve potential future events that no human being can have any absolute knowledge of, it’s a pretty safe bet there is some assumption involved.
| How about the survivability of tyrants during the transition of low intensity conflict to open insurrection dominated by 4GW methodologies? I make the assumption that it may in some ways present challenges of both readiness and conscience. But that's the way the world works. Contra principia negantem non est disputandum. |
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Except you were making what you claimed were facts about past events. Again nice try to shift the argument. NO SALE.
A better word choice, and I submit the correct word choice, is "speculation." One speculates about the future, and assumes about the past or present.
Some synonyms ... assumption, axiom, premise, presumption
All that said, either word works in common usage - I understood exactly what you meant. Just that people are judged in part by their vocabulary and usage.