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What does assumptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Held as true or valid without evidence.
  2. Forward or presumptuous.
  3. (arms) Originally, being arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College.
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He also eschews an assumptive theology of a God who is only active in church or in the private reflections of each human heart.
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.
The tone of this article was assumptive and leading towards suggesting the opposite.
But while mathematical formalism may camouflage assumptive foolishness, it does not correct its theoretical effects and may exaggerate them, hence the unrealistic result.
Skidelsky is a good writer, but he is not Keynes, and some readers may find his exegeses of economic ideas and the ins and outs of lengthy policy debates technical, dense, and assumptive.
The current treatment of planning assumptions, or the overreliance on assumptions, has turned the planning process into assumptive planning.

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