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Believing you're right before the evidence shows up, dressed as confidence.
means The act of taking something for granted as true before it's proven, or behavior that oversteps what's permitted by being too bold or forward.
from From Latin 'praesumere,' to take beforehand — 'prae-' (before) plus 'sumere' (to take), the same 'sumere' behind 'consume' and 'assume.' It traveled through Old French 'presumption' into English, carrying both its neutral sense (taking a thing for granted) and its prickly one (taking liberties you weren't given). The arrogance shading came along early: to 'take beforehand' easily becomes to take what isn't yet yours.
- Legal default
- Innocence is a presumption courts must actively disprove
- Latin root
- Praesumere means to take beforehand, to anticipate
- Deadly sin adjacent
- Presuming on God's mercy was once theologically damning
- Logic engine
- Drives countless arguments via unstated rebuttable assumptions
- Social grenade
- Calling someone presumptuous is itself a quiet flex
presumption of innocence — legal principle in criminal law: defendant assumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt