The phrase "a basic assumption of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing foundational beliefs or premises that underlie a theory, argument, or system.
Example: "A basic assumption of this theory is that all individuals act in their own self-interest."
Alternatives: "a fundamental premise of" or "a core belief of".
This doesn't mesh well with a basic assumption of CBT – that, with training, we can learn to catch most of our unhelpful mental responses in the act.
Up until the 1930s it had been a basic assumption of Birmingham's leaders that their role was to encourage the city's growth.
Ali Catterall This Martin Scorsese-prodocumentaryentary questions a basic assumption of our times: that "progress", in the form of greater efficiency and technological advancement, really represents the way forward for mankind, as opposed to a retrograde step.
Although such a system is certainly far from foolproof, wikis stand as an example of the origin of an Internet counterculture that has a basic assumption of the goodness of people.
It's a basic assumption of natural selection: to perpetuate itself, a species must reproduce, and to reproduce it must engage in sex, and the only way individual animals would consistently initiate an activity as selfless, forward-oriented, and (admit it) physically weird as sex is if there were something instantly rewarding about it.
A basic assumption of conventional seismic hazard methodology is that earthquake sources are time independent (i.e., random distribution in time).
A basic assumption on the considered class of stiffly accurate Runge Kutta time discretisations is a stability criterion which is in particular satisfied by the Radau IIA and Lobatto IIIC methods.
The parameters provided in this article allow power calculations for either context since linearity is a basic assumption for slope of change and should hold true early or late in the course of disease.
A basic assumption for the use of these methods is the linear elastic behaviour of the tested structures.
The post questioned a basic assumption that many of us in the tech industry hold near and dear.
Encountering asexual people for the first time calls into question a basic assumption that most of us hold: that everyone experiences sexual attraction.
