Absolutely, that is, depending on how assumptions are perceived and used. Presumptions are what drives the way along the path to finding facts. Something I and my team get involved in at work on a daily basis; within a Quality Assurance Division. Whether that be through initially brainstorming of assumptions that drive the quest to find the correct questions, or through investigation of a situation that produces assumptions that drives the questions.
Those questions then move us forward to finding data and facts. Finding direct causes and root causes along the way. Including proving negatives as well as positives. Proving things out as well as proving things in.
It’s nothing radical, because in a way that’s how the brain works anyway, to a greater or lesser extent depending on the person. Or dare I say it, not at all with a select minority that we all come across every so often. The ones who present hearsay, and then other people’s hearsay as fact. What was the title of that thread again?