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I had 2 thoughts at what you might refer to here, so let me mention them both, and then answer to the more likely sounding.That is of course simply an assumption.
1) The less likely is that you mean I'm assuming I've not yet been to the afterlife, but could have in some sense been there already (that it's somehow subtle or deeper and I just didn't notice it yet)?
2) But more likely I think you mean an assumption about whether there is an afterlife -- that to believe that there is, or that there is not, either way -- is an assumption.
If the 2nd, here's my thought: suppose I read announcements from a long-time Governor in my state where I've noticed over time that things he says he will do he very consistently does. Suppose then one day I read in an announcement from that Governor that he says he will do action X later in time (not yet, but later). Then what is my view? This: because of the consistency in doing other things he said he would do over time, then I can have some confidence, yes, that it's very likely that he will do X also, as he has proven over time to do other things he said he'd do in his announcements. It's like that.
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