In the absence of any other indication of impaired behavior, the assumption that it resulted from drinking and all other successive assumptions are unwarranted. Based on unwarranted assumptions ...

But these assumptions are usually unconscious. We don't even know we're making them. ... People trap themselves all the time in interpersonal relations, making unwarranted assumptions.

PROF. R. A. MILLIKAN in his retiring presidential address of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (NATURE, Jan. 31, p. 167), refers to the assumption “that the radiation laws ...