0 the act of believing that something is true without having any proof -- 推定，推測，假定
The presumption of innocence is central to American law. 美國法律的核心是無罪假定。
There is no scientific evidence to support such presumptions. 並無科學依據支持這樣的推測。
[ + that ] The decision is based on the presumption that all information must be freely available. 這個決定是建立在一切資訊都必須免費提供的假定之上的。
What is more, there is a presumption that what is necessary is also sufficient.
This presumption cannot be made on behalf of a secular consensus.
The presumption is that a firm may find itself in financial problems that are not connected to the long-term viability of the establishment.
Physicians suspend the presumption of autonomy and constantly assess patients' capacity with an eye toward protecting them from the dangerous consequences of impaired decisionmaking.
Yet many studies of his thought have been and perhaps still are based upon some such presumption.
This presumption suggests the possibility that babbling drift does not apply (or at least does not apply strongly) to infrastructural development of the speech capacity.
Nevertheless, such rules are often accompanied by an implicit or explicit presumption that diversification of investments is a key indicator of prudence.
This coheres with the general presumption that action may be taken to prevent or alleviate greater harm when a person is unavailable for consent.
