suffictionn.
/sʌˈfɪkʃən/ A fiction taken as a hypothesis.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > hypothesis > [noun] > fictional
suffiction1817
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story > taken as hypothesis
suffiction1817
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. v In the majority of instances these hypotheses or suppositions better deserve the name of ὑποποιήσεις, or suffictions.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xii Arbitrary suppositions, or rather suffictions.
1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1835) II. 197 It seems to me a great delusion to call or suppose the imagination of a subtle fluid, or molecules penetrable with the same, a legitimate hypothesis. It is a mere suffiction.
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