In her gentle way, O'Keeffe remonstrated to the effect that, perhaps, people were merely presuming that what they read into her flowers was what she had written in them, and that she had done no such thing.
As will be shown, this prior understanding can be overtly demonstrated or merely presumed or potential, and it may be the understanding of the speaker him/herself, or that of the recipient.
Discussion proceeds from a (perhaps merely presumed) situation in the addressee's life, meandering back and forth between more general and more specific considerations, arguments, side-issues, and sometimes consolation.
Knowledge that is unstated is not presumed to be false; it is merely presumed to be missing.
As Bond and Fox (2007) point out, "scales to which we routinely ascribe that measurement status in the human sciences are merely presumed … almost never tested empirically" (p. 4).
Individuals or groups who are actually observed or merely presumed to be experiencing the physical, behavioural, emotional or cognitive symptoms and signs of "mental health difficulties" (MHDs: e.g., addictions) of any type, complexity, intensity or duration [ 3] are often stigmatized on these bases by individuals, groups or institutions [ 1, 2, 4- 6].
He noted that an indictment "is merely a formal accusation," and said that his client "is not just presumed to be innocent, but is in fact innocent".
He is simply presumed innocent.
The event served to remind me, and perhaps you too, that the inexplicable experiences of life we often disregard or presume are merely random or coincidental could in fact be portals into consciousness itself.
We therefore endeavored, dear Reader, to be, first, Companionable and by that, Sir, I mean not to presume a Friendship but merely to invite an Acquaintance and second, Unhurried but never, at any cost, Inattentive.
