Perhaps he would be taken out and shot at dawn on the simple assumption that he was a spy.

I could sympathize; they'd had a simple program, based on simple assumptions.

It's the simplest assumption to make sense of the facts.

A third approach is found by starting out with two very simple assumptions.

The simplest assumption is that the two anomalies are connected.

The simplest assumption is, of course, that all chains have the same length N1.

Reviewing the numbers, it appears that his claim rests on a simple assumption.

Parsimony does not by any means necessarily produce a "simple" assumption.

The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made.

His new theory hinged on the fact that they had made a further wrong assumption, single, simple and basic.