Its a boring sunday today.
I reckon that I’ven’t been to the library in about 7 months now! I’ven’t read a book of fiction in 7 months wow o_O I’ll go there now. Hope I find some good books.
All of yesterday’s free time, I tried figuring out the difference between presume and assume. I couldn’t figure a difference out yet, any english Ph.D’s out there who want to clear this one for me? 
Now, for the bad part, I don’t have any winter holidays, apart from one day off for Christmas at college, which I doubt will be without a ton of work added upon. I hope they give me loads of holidays in January for the harvest festivals, else we’re gonna strike, yeah really! 
Anyways, I added The Goo Goo Dolls, Franz Ferdinand, Incubus and 3 Doors Down to my playlist now, new music! I’ll update my collections page soon
Now I got to go to the library and return and build my about page. Sigh, works and works, no work and all play make me a playboy? lol.
Update : Back from the library, I got 3 books. Couldn’t find Eragon’s 2nd part – Eldest [I have an e-book but I hate to read it 
] . So I got The Runaway Jury by John Grisham, Percy Jackson and Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan and a random blind selection Neal Asher’s The Voyage of Sable Keech
hmmm i guess not much of a difference….may be it is similar to immflamable and flammable…and both of them mean the same…
manR
17 Dec 06 at 12:52 pm
http://www.answers.com/topic/assume
this may be where you may get the answer to your question. Presume means the same as assume in only a single sense: to take for granted. Assume, though has many other meanings also.
This may help too:
SYNONYMS presume, presuppose, postulate, posit, assume. These verbs signify to take something for granted or as being a fact. To presume is to suppose that something is reasonable or possible in the absence of proof to the contrary: ?I presume you’re tired after the long ride? (Edith Wharton). Presuppose can mean to believe or suppose in advance: It is unrealistic to presuppose a sophisticated knowledge of harmony in a beginning music student. Postulate and posit denote the assertion of the existence, reality, necessity, or truth of something as the basis for reasoning or argument: ?We can see individuals, but we can’t see providence; we have to postulate it? (Aldous Huxley). To assume is to accept something as existing or being true without proof or on inconclusive grounds: ?We must never assume that which is incapable of proof? (G.H. Lewes).
BJ
17 Dec 06 at 4:22 pm
Ahhh, in your own words please, those are jargon to me. Single sense means?
@ManR – I dont really think its so common hehe… inflammable was taken in wrong sense and thus the word flammable is used in caution notices.
Harsh J
17 Dec 06 at 5:35 pm
Hmmm… you still haven’t started Eldest, I thought you did way back anyways boring day here too. Good you got some books.
karthiksn
18 Dec 06 at 1:00 am
‘Presume’ means the same thing as ‘assume’ when you are talking about: Taking for granted. There are other places also where ‘assume’ is used. such as :
to assume a responsibility
to assume a demonic form
to assume a satin robe
which are places where you cannot replace ‘assume’ with ‘presume’.
And this was in my own words.
BJ
18 Dec 06 at 7:22 pm
Oh ok, got the difference now. So that means in ‘Taking for granted’ there exists no difference at all? Any other uses presume has got, except being the same as assume? Now I got to ask why was it coined
Harsh J
18 Dec 06 at 7:31 pm
I love ‘presume’ more than ‘assume’ and use it more often as it directly deals with one fact, which is very common or but-obvious. Good riddance of multiple guesses. On the lighter side of things, you dont have to apologize if you are wrong. But thats just me.
Sourabh
20 Dec 06 at 3:54 am