Dean didn't comment on Fred's unproved assumption.
Nevertheless, though unproved, Anne's guilt is more than probable.
The prophets themselves required no historical verification of their word to assure them that it was indeed the word of God, nor do they for a moment admit that their contemporaries are entitled to treat its authority as unproved till such verification is offered.
Embracing the whole philosophic movement under the name of "the Cartesian system," Reid detects its fundamental error in the unproved assumption shared by these thinkers "that all the objects of my knowledge are ideas in my own mind."
In 1876, in consequence of unproved accusations of corruption, he resigned.