Sentence examples for a cardinal assumption from inspiring English sources

For more than a century, Western philosophers and psychologists have based their discussions of mental life on a cardinal assumption: that the same basic processes underlie all human thought, whether in the mountains of Tibet or the grasslands of the Serengeti.

Most models use logistic regression, with a cardinal assumption being linearity in the relationship between continuous predictors (for example, blood pressure) and the log odds of outcome (death).

To be specific about the background theory let us take ZFC + "There is a proper class of Woodin cardinals" and recall that this large cardinal assumption secures axioms of definable determinacy such as PD and ADL.

This is a key assumption.

For example, granting our large cardinal assumptions, such a view deems PM (and PD and ADL true but deems CH indeterminate.

Second, N inherits all known large cardinals that exist in V. Thus, in contrast to the inner models that have been developed thus far, an inner model at the level of a supercompact would provide one with an axiom that could not be refuted by stronger large cardinal assumptions.

Under large cardinal assumptions one has more generic extensions.

Cardinal assumptions amongst practitioners about specificity of topography, behavioural outcome and frequency bands are critically examined.

Going further, if one assumes ADL then this version of CH holds for all sets of real numbers appearing in L. Since these hypotheses follow from large cardinal axioms one also has that stronger and stronger large cardinal assumptions secure stronger and stronger versions of this version of the effective continuum hypothesis.

In a relevant review, it was assumed that diabetes may merely be a confounder and instead other factors related to the management of diabetic patients, such as antihyperglycemic therapies, may account for the observed protection of such patients [ 16]; the lack of firm evidence that acute hyperglycemia (a cardinal feature of diabetes) alone modulates ALI makes this assumption reasonable [ 13, 29].

"A cardinal".