The phrase "assumption first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to emphasize that assumptions should be made or considered before proceeding with a discussion or analysis.
Example: "In our analysis, we need to adopt an assumption first to guide our conclusions about the data."
Alternatives: "presume first" or "assume initially".
This assumption first gained popularity following the popularisation of Darwin and Wallace's discovery of evolution.
However, let's deal with one assumption first: this will not actually reduce any emissions.
"There is this assumption, first of all, that to be successful you have to exhibit whiteness, English language, materialism.
We develop two generalized extreme value models based on the simple scaling assumption, first in the frequentist framework and second in the Bayesian framework.
On the assumption (first adopted by the Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens) that faintness is a statistical measure of distance, they inferred the enormous average separations of stars.
There are serious problems with this assumption: first, Republicans have failed to achieve reversal in the five previous times they asked the court for it; and second, it is far from certain that only one additional vote is needed to reverse the decision in light of the principles of stare decisis by which a decided case ought not to be disturbed.
In this step, we people to become the "biographers" of their assumptions: How and when did the assumptions first take hold?
Let's start with three assumptions: First, the Middle East will not escape the long-term global trend toward greater democratic accountability.
To work through the ethics of the situation, let's make some assumptions first, Lefkowitz said by email.
Rather than simply assuming you are right about all of these things and can dive headfirst into building your product, Lean suggests that you test your assumptions first.
To develop an analytical model of this multicast scheme, we need to make some definitions and assumptions, first.
