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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
How about "presume"?
I mean, there's already "assume"? How is "presume" different?
Can we assume without being presumptuous? Or not?
godfry
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Good question. A presumption is a special kind of assumption--an assumption made about something or someone that is questionable, at best. So, I don't think that "presume" is redundant for the same kind of reason that "prejudge" isn't redundant.