Outside discussions of logic, assumption usually refers to the Assumption of Mary, a Christian tradition of the taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Assumption may also refer to:
Places
- Assumption, Alberta, Canada
- Assumption, Illinois, United States
- Assumption Island, Seychelles
- Assumption Island Airport
- Assumption, Minnesota, United States
- Assumption, Nebraska, United States
- Assumption, Ohio, United States
- Assumption Parish, Louisiana, United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
- "Assumption" (short story), a 1929 story by Samuel Beckett
- Assumption of Moses, a Jewish apocryphal pseudepigraphical work of uncertain date and authorship
Churches
- Assumption Chapel, Minnesota, United States
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Michigan, United States
- Assumption – St. Paul, New York, United States
- Cathedral of the Assumption (disambiguation)
- Church of the Assumption (disambiguation)
Logic
- Closed-world assumption, the presumption that a statement that is true is also known to be true, and a statement not known to be true is false
- Open-world assumption, assumption that the truth value of a statement may be true irrespective of whether or not it is known to be true
- Tacit assumption, belief applied in developing a logical argument or decision that is not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker
- Presupposition, a tacit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance
- Unique name assumption, in logics where different names always refer to different entities in the world
Schools
- Australia
- Assumption College, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
- Assumption College, Warwick, Queensland, Australia
- Canada
- Assumption Catholic Secondary School, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
- Assumption College School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Assumption College School (Brantford), Ontario, Canada
- Assumption University (Windsor, Ontario), Canada
- India
- Assumption College, Changanasserry, Kerala, India
- Japan
- Assumption Junior College, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Philippines
- Assumption Antipolo, Philippines
- Assumption College of Davao, Davao City, Philippines
- Assumption College San Lorenzo, Makati City, Philippines
- Assumption Iloilo, Iloilo City, Philippines
- University of the Assumption, Pampanga, Philippines
- Singapore
- Assumption English School, Singapore
- Thailand
- Assumption College Sriracha, Chonburi Province, Thailand
- Assumption College (Thailand)
- Assumption University (Thailand), Bangkok, Thailand
- UK (Northern Ireland)
- Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch, County Down, Northern Ireland
- United States
- Academy of the Assumption, Florida, United States
- Assumption Catholic School, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston–Houston, United States
- Assumption College, Massachusetts, United States
- Assumption College for Sisters, New Jersey, United States
- Assumption High School (Iowa), United States
- Assumption High School (Kentucky), United States
- Assumption High School (Louisiana), United States
- Assumption High School (Wisconsin), United States
- Assumption Preparatory School, Massachusetts, United States
- Assumption School, Illinois, United States
- Assumption School (Saint Paul, Minnesota), United States
See also
- Dormition (disambiguation)
- Asunción, the Spanish word
- Axiom
- Assumption Cathedral (disambiguation)
- Church of the Assumption (disambiguation)
- Debt Assumption, the US policy under Alexander Hamilton to assume the war debt of some states
- Entering heaven alive
- L'Assomption River, Quebec, Canada
- List of churches consecrated to Santa Maria Assunta ("Assunta" is the Italian for Assumption)
- Presupposition
- Proposition