Which preposition to use with assumptions

of Occurrences 436%

Growth is development in right assertion; it is the assumption of legitimate responsibility and command.

on Occurrences 18%

The Emperor, for his part, had good reason for not yielding, for by so doing he would not only have admitted into a neighboring country an agency which would soon have been employed for political purposes to his disadvantage, but would have justified the assumption on which the demand rested, viz., that the pope had a right to claim the provinces which his predecessors had lost.

in Occurrences 15%

Miss POTTS, then, although looking up from her trying worsted occupation at the servant who entered with a rather snappish expression of countenance, was guilty of no particularly hypocritical assumption in at once suffering her features to relax into a sweetly pensive smile upon learning that there was a gentleman to see her in the parlor.

by Occurrences 11%

A Madonna and Child by Fra Angelico is more powerful over our emotions than a Crucifixion by a vulgar artist; a beggar-boy by Murillo is more imaginative than an Assumption by the same painter; but the Assumption by Titian displays far greater imagination than elther.

as Occurrences 8%

Messrs. Adams, Thomson, and Tait work out this suggestion, and, "on a certain assumption as to the proportion of retardations due to the sun and moon," find the earth may lose twenty-two seconds of time in a century from this cause.

for Occurrences 4%

It can only save our liberty by denying our limitations; or at least it leaves us facing a problem which can be solved only by an assumption for which Idealism offers no philosophical warrant.

at Occurrences 3%

One of them is the head painted by Daniele da Volterra in his picture of the Assumption at the church of the Trinità de' Monti in Rome.

with Occurrences 3%

He was known to have gone to original documents for the sources of his narrative; and it seems to have been taken for granted, not only that his fidelity was above suspicionan assumption with which I do not deal nowbut also that his interpretation of the meaning of those who wrote the papers consulted must be correct.

without Occurrences 2%

But argumentation consists of four parts, when we either advance a proposition, or claim an assumption without proof.

to Occurrences 2%

But before discussing the relation of this assumption to existing facts and so bringing it to an à posteriori test, let us examine its à priori supports.

about Occurrences 2%

Our contemporary economics is, however, still a foolish, pretentious pseudo-science, a festering mass of assumptions about buying and selling and wages-paying, and one would as soon consult Bradshaw or the works of Dumas as our orthodox professors of economics for any light upon this fundamental matter.

than Occurrences 1%

Now the principle of gradation throughout organic Nature may, of course, be interpreted upon other assumptions than those of Darwin's hypothesis,certainly upon quite other than those of materialistic philosophy, with which we ourselves have no sympathy.

against Occurrences 1%

It was intended to reconcile a large and growing class of minds, penetrated and disgusted with the ignorance and injustice of much of the current controversial assumptions against Rome, to a larger and more defensible view of the position of the English Church.

into Occurrences 1%

She is kneeling with fiery rays around her, glorified by her assumption into heaven.

below Occurrences 1%

Do we gain much by reasoning from an assumption below the ken of the microscope to a conclusion above that of the telescope?

Which preposition to use with  assumptions