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n. - An assumption that is basic to an argument.

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  • Another sad constatation was that we started to forget all of it.
  • Language does not operate in the mode of knowing or constatation of truths, but in the mode of persuasion, of rhetoric as a type of power rather than
  • For example, I proffer the constatation, 'Black ladders lack bladders.'
  • ‘An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he’s a thief is simply la constatation d’un fait.
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