The most problematic assumption is that 2007 can be interpreted as a steady state with respect to the number and characteristics of beneficiaries and their work activity.
Central to the psycho-behavioural thesis is a problematic assumption: that if people believe they have a moral duty to respect nature or believe that natural things are intrinsically valuable, then they really will act in more environmental-friendly ways.
(Surely, I don't need to make mention that there's a problematic assumption there from Mr. Levant, whose co-commenter also adds the Algonquin senator comes from a "tougher neighbourhood" than Trudeau).
A problematic assumption of these models, however, is that they do not incorporate the aforementioned increasing costs of increasingly-complex accumulated knowledge.
To say you like black women highlights a problematic assumption that all of them act, or look, the same.
"The longer this goes on the more problematic that assumption is".
Several authors have, for quite different reasons, denied what they take to be a common but problematic assumption — that "Consciousness is an on/off switch; a system is either conscious or not," as Searle — who endorses the thesis puts it (quoted by Lycan 1996, who denies the thesis).
Q: Why is that problematic?
Here, each individual is assumed to contribute to the group's decision with equal weight (e.g. [ 1])—a potentially problematic assumption given that many animal groups are composed of members differing in age, experience, skill, social rank and so forth.
According to Zangwill this assumption is problematic, given that the obvious sensory and motor differences across species by themselves yield different cause-and-effect patterns at all but the grossest level of description.
In this article, we think this assumption is problematic and, instead, assume that rational economic agents act as if they were maximizing their implicit utilities, which turns out to be a natural extension of the canonical rationality assumption.
