Their honesty forced us to think hard about the assumptions we were making.
At the start of the committee stage last week their lordships raised questions about the assumptions of the government.
That is the thing about the assumptions of conventional wisdom: they can be so easily turned on their head by actual events.
"Yes and no," says Finn. "It's more about the assumptions about what it is to be in a family of musicians.
But it's also because, more obviously, the words journalists use can reveal important things about the assumptions that underlie their coverage of the markets.
Mr. Krashen is correct about an excess of testing in American schools, but not about the assumptions behind the common core standards.
But it made me think about the assumptions that medical professionals — and society in general — make about those who seem to fit a certain picture.
Clayton and Clark Rockefeller give us an insight into how proper names manage to refer to things, but also about the assumptions we make about names.
And the speed and scale of this recession are raising doubts about the assumptions that had underpinned the drive to integrate world markets.
Moreover, the OBR's independence has already been called into doubt and questions asked about the assumptions behind its fiscal forecasts and the timing of its release of new data, both of which appear to have benefited the government.
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it planned to consider new rules next year that would force companies to make more precise disclosures about the assumptions behind their financial statements.
