But the comedy of the gas-station joke also depended upon a deeper cultural assumption: that the closest Hillary was going to get to the Presidency was being married to a man who was President, not by inhabiting the role herself.
But the deeper assumption made by this model of faith as belief (as, too, by the 'special knowledge' model) is that God's self-revelation is primarily the revelation of the truth of propositions articulated in human language (compare Swinburne 1992).
We suggest that variables of artefacts, like evaluation of competence, organization of work and leadership, may provide a reflection of deeper assumptions.
Instead, new threats and opportunities can be better anticipated by looking beyond the facts to engage wider and deeper assumptions that operate as strategic framing devices that shape understanding of the present situation whether or not they are made explicit, or remain implicit.
"We didn't realize that we were experiencing the incomprehension of two groups who did not know each other's deeper assumptions.
The use of the term "moonlighting" nicely displays the deep assumption that normally a molecule has one proper function, and something is out of the ordinary when it is discovered doing something different (Henderson and Martin 2011; Huberts and van der Klei 2010; Collingridge et al. 2010).
It is our deep assumption that we need a multi-stakeholder approach to tackle global, interconnected, large-scale challenges.
This is the same deep assumption at work when our daughter's school always calls me if there's a problem, assuming I am the "designated parent," when I am just as likely to be unavailable as my husband.
He is merely pointing out that there is still a deep-vein cultural assumption within the game that the parents of our young prospects will have that kind of money.
Before long, the Virago novels would unseat some of my deepest assumptions as a reader, and also alter my course as a writer.
