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"Supposed"2 answers
putative8 lettershypothetical12 letters
Filled answer is this word (PUTATIVE).
Definitions
purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds
Word origin
First attested c. 1432, from Middle French putatif, from Latin putātīvus (“supposed, purported”), from putātus (“thought”), from putō (“to think, to consider, to reckon”).
Used in a sentence
“Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today . . . so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975.”
“If they are in fact sound, then, of course, desire-utilitarianism need not account for the putative wrongness of infanticide.”
“This independence is still presupposed as a condition of agency; but this presupposition leaves in place the epistemic possibility that our putative freedom is illusory, that we are automata rather than agents.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Supposed”8 letters
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