assumptive

How To Use assumptive In A Sentence

• a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
• Several foresighted assumptive ideas and proposals to plant and utilize each variety of camellia oleifera are put forward.
• If an author or a publisher pays a publicist — pure and simple — to promote a book and there is no assumptive coverage, that that seems perfectly reasonable to me. What’s a book blog tour? « The Book Publicity Blog
• But it is then called assumptive, when the fact cannot be proved by its own intrinsic evidence, but is defended by some argument brought from extraneous circumstances. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
• In the first sentence of his piece, Black refers assumptively to the policies FDR used "to lead the country out of the Great Depression" - as if FDR actually got the country out of the depression. The Corner
• The tone of this article was assumptive and leading towards suggesting the opposite.
• an assumptive person
• For within the context of international politics, faith is redundant as it calls for assumptive reasoning in a landscape of constant change and hidden agendas.
• Either the explanation will be vindicated, or we will make discoveries that not only invalidate it, but that may lead to a new, less assumptive theory that is preferred to the others, some of which may also have been disproved in the process.
• When an author or a publisher pays a blog tour company, there is assumptive coverage. What’s a book blog tour? « The Book Publicity Blog