The phrase "assumption rather" is not correct and usable in written English as it stands.
It may be intended to compare or clarify a specific assumption against another idea or concept, but it requires additional context or words to be meaningful.
Example: "The assumption rather than the evidence led to the conclusion that was ultimately flawed."
Alternatives: "assumption instead" or "assumption as opposed to".
That concept, which is based on an assumption rather than statistically demonstrated, has been relied upon for years.
The search team stressed that this was only a working assumption – rather than any cause identified by accident investigators under the legal lead of the Malaysian government.
That does not mean that the idea must be abandoned; rather, it should inform public policy as an underlying assumption rather than a set of policies.
The long-term funding deal he brandished in the Commons in July, to distract attention from the second round of army cuts, turns out on closer inspection to be a "planning assumption", rather than a guarantee.
Their assumption can be useful for exploring other issues, so long as we keep in mind that the close relationship between short-term interest rates and consumer spending is their assumption, rather than a conclusion or an empirical finding.
In those cases, the specification of interdependence takes the form of an assumption, rather than a hypothesis or a subject of analysis.
He credits changing assumptions rather than specific targets for the success so far.
By the end, this story of a Bangladeshi housewife quietly suffering in London feels familiar rather than revelatory, made out of ideas and assumptions rather than insights.
Behaviours are controlled by the beliefs, norms, values, and assumptions rather than being restrained by formal rules, authority, and the norms of rational behaviour.
Rather, he seems to be working from a set of vague but unshakable assumptions about American politics and culture, and he has built his overstated, unconvincing stories from these assumptions rather than from observation and reflection.
But those techniques only highlight the film's artificiality, making you gratingly aware of how much has been left out and how much of the drama is based on secondhand assumptions rather than genuine insight.
