"heroic assumption" meaning in English

See heroic assumption in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: heroic assumptions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} heroic assumption (plural heroic assumptions)
  1. An assumption that the speaker considers very unlikely to be true but temporarily accepts in order to make a hypothetical argument. Related terms: assume, assumptive
    Sense id: en-heroic_assumption-en-noun-SKN2jbPr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for heroic assumption meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heroic assumptions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heroic assumption (plural heroic assumptions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Even if we make the heroic assumption that the governor makes this his top priority, it isn't feasible to have new regulation in effect in six months."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An assumption that the speaker considers very unlikely to be true but temporarily accepts in order to make a hypothetical argument."
      ],
      "id": "en-heroic_assumption-en-noun-SKN2jbPr",
      "links": [
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ],
        [
          "unlikely",
          "unlikely"
        ],
        [
          "hypothetical",
          "hypothetical"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "assume"
        },
        {
          "word": "assumptive"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heroic assumption"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "heroic assumptions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heroic assumption (plural heroic assumptions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "assume"
    },
    {
      "word": "assumptive"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Even if we make the heroic assumption that the governor makes this his top priority, it isn't feasible to have new regulation in effect in six months."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An assumption that the speaker considers very unlikely to be true but temporarily accepts in order to make a hypothetical argument."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assumption",
          "assumption"
        ],
        [
          "unlikely",
          "unlikely"
        ],
        [
          "hypothetical",
          "hypothetical"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heroic assumption"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.