Tā yìduàn duìfāng yǒuzuì, què ná bù chū rènhé zhèngjù.
He assumed the other party was guilty but couldn't produce any evidence.
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usage
臆断 is formal and negative in tone. It implies reaching a conclusion based on subjective feeling rather than fact or logic. It is stronger than 猜测 (to guess) and closer to 'prejudge' or 'assume without basis'.
memory
臆 (yì) refers to the chest/heart (the seat of subjective feeling in classical thought), and 断 (duàn) means 'to judge/decide'. To 臆断 is to 'judge from the heart' — i.e., from gut feeling rather than evidence.
