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Now abortion is banned in many states, and assumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has reportedly said he’ll back a 16-week abortion ban if reelected.

Little Man Theory remains mere theory, to be sure, possibly no more than an inchoate proto-theory, because it is yet hypothetical, speculative and assumptive.

She cites a theory called the assumptive world, which suggests that a person has strongly held and grounding assumptions about the world.

“The kind of losses that we grieve over are the ones that disrupt that assumptive world, which can explain feelings of grief about the death of the Queen,” she says.

“It confronts us with existential truths about life that clash with this system. The more we try to hold on to our assumptive world, the more mired we are in denial of such truths.”