(February 2, 2013 at 12:29 pm)genkaus Wrote: The first definition of assumption is "something taken for granted". In our discussion, "something" refers to a statement, such as "there is no god" and "granted" would then refer to taken to be true without looking for proof.No, sorry.
Belief, means something believed, that is, to take a statement as true. Do you still not see how they are same?
An assumption has no truth value attributed. It just is.
A belief does.