questionable assumption
Frequency: 6.04.5 per million words
An assumption that is doubtful and not certain to be correct.
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- Your argument is based on a set of questionable assumptions.
- The entire business plan was built on the questionable assumption that sales would double each year.
- Her conclusion stems from a questionable assumption that everyone shares her values.
- We must challenge this questionable assumption before we can make any real progress.
- The historical analysis is weakened by several questionable assumptions about the motivations of past leaders.
- The project's failure was inevitable, given its reliance on the questionable assumption that funding would be unlimited.
- The lawyer pointed out that the prosecution's case rested on a single, questionable assumption.
- Believing that the market will always go up is a questionable assumption for any investor.
- He proceeded with the experiment, ignoring that it relied on a questionable assumption about the material's stability.
- Many old scientific theories were discarded because they were founded on questionable assumptions.