Timeline for Antonym of "assume" or; a synonym of "assume" and its antonym
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| Aug 23, 2020 at 17:03 | comment | added | user205876 | Symbol manipulation systems like Mathematica have been around for decades. Unless you’re attempting to design around a patented feature, just use what already exists. | |
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 5:39 | vote | accept | Sari | ||
| Nov 3, 2018 at 5:13 | comment | added | Sari | @Mitch Thanks. I actually asked this on a technical site and it was suggested to me that I post it here, so that is why I did it. The more I think about it, the more I also like "do not assume". | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 16:06 | comment | added | jsw29 | The OP seems to agree that do not assume would work well in writing and speaking; the only reason for rejecting it is that it wouldn't work well when transposed into a programming language. This is what leaves an impression that the question is about programming and not about English language. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 14:16 | answer | added | microenzo | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:57 | comment | added | Lawrence | Finding an antonym presupposes a metric. If we take certainty as our metric, with ‘assumptions’ being characterised by uncertainty (if you were certain, you wouldn’t call it an assumption), then know can count as an antonym. The later part of your question makes it clear this isn’t what you’re looking for, though, so I’ll just leave this as a comment. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:55 | comment | added | Kevin | As a programmer, I'm unclear exactly what "assume" and it's opposite are supposed to do. Could you clarify? As you said, "don't assume x" is not the same as "assume not x" | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:44 | answer | added | Jason Bassford | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:11 | comment | added | Mitch | Because you are using this in a very technical context (variable binding, proving properties of programs) you may want to ask this at a technical site where there would be more subject matter expertise (and where the culture may have a specific answer). For example, math.SE or one of the programming.SE sites. Also, 'Do not assume...' is probably the phrasing that captures the concept the most accurately; don't be a slave to single words per concept. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 13:01 | history | edited | Sari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 12:49 | history | edited | Sari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 12:32 | comment | added | Sari | @jsw29 This is not a question about programming. This is a question about finding English words with the meanings that I am after. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | Sari | @JasonBassford Sorry, I forgot "assume" could mean something other than "belief", and assumed it had only the meaning I was thinking of. | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 16:28 | answer | added | user205876 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | Given that you like doubt as its opposite, does this mean that you are defining assume to mean "believe" (or, more specifically, "hold as an opinion on faith")? You haven't yet said what you understand the meaning of assume to be. | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 7:04 | comment | added | michael.hor257k |
If you're going to coin a term, then disassume has exactly 1 Google result, and nonassume has 2 (relevant ones).
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 6:56 | comment | added | Sari |
I like "doubt", actually! deny is a bit strong for my taste, and this is also different from an assertion. An assertion will error if the assumption is incorrect. Rather, this is part of an optimization step before the exact value of X is know, but some assumptions about its properties can still be made. For instance, if we assume x is zero, then x + y can be reduced to y.
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 6:45 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні |
When I first read your question title, I thought of “doubt”, as in “I doubted that it would rain, so I didn’t bring my umbrella.” But, given then context, I would suggest deny. Actually, “deny” may be antonyms with “assert”, but the programming paradigm that you are talking about is often called assert.
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 6:26 | comment | added | Sari |
assume X is not zero has a very different meaning since it is an assumption about X. do not assume X is zero works, but is not a single word, so it doesn't read so well if you contract it, i. e., in the programming language it will become @donotassume iszero(X) or @do_not_assume iszero(X), which is why I am mostly after a single word antonym.
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 6:10 | comment | added | michael.hor257k |
"Unassume" may not be in any dictionary, but "unassuming" is - and it has a quite different meaning. Could you not negate the assumption by assume X is not zero or do not assume that x is zero?
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 5:44 | history | asked | Sari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |