All 4 Uses of
supposition
in
Moby Dick
- But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat's crew being assigned to that boat.†
Chpt 49-51 *
- But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.†
Chpt 82-84
- The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it.†
Chpt 85-87
- The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
something supposed (rather than something known to be so) -- such as a disputed belief or assumption