The phrase "accepted assumption" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a belief or idea that is generally agreed upon or taken for granted within a particular context or field.
Example: "In scientific research, the accepted assumption is that the results can be replicated under similar conditions."
Alternatives: "generally accepted belief" or "commonly held assumption".
It was just an accepted assumption within my social group.
However, this is a broadly accepted assumption that does not always prove to be true.
However, the generally accepted assumption for the movement direction is too vague to be adopted for a precise analysis.
According to a generally accepted assumption, the probability of bond formation between receptors and ligands is proportional to the first power of encounter duration.
TRENTON - For months, the state's political establishment has been handicapping the race to succeed Jon S. Corzine as the next United States senator, operating under the widely accepted assumption that he will comfortably capture the governor's race in November.
Dr Clive Waddington, who directed the two-year dig for Archaeological Research Services, said: "In recent years there has become an almost accepted assumption that warfare in the British iron age is largely invisible.
Working with Rotblat at Barts, she was able to challenge many of the establishment's accepted assumptions.
The validity of commonly accepted assumptions in the determination of the response of structures to blast loading is finally discussed.
They have questioned whether some such claims really are, as alleged, indubitable or necessarily true, and they have challenged the purported rational grounds of accepted assumptions.
It is also apparent that a number of widely accepted assumptions, such as those relating to presumed lice population distributions or the ability to pre-select highly infested cages, cannot be uncritically accepted.
But a new Tate Modern retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe, a giant of American 20th-century modernism, is to challenge the "conservative male" – and widely accepted – assumptions that her famous flowers paintings are depictions of female genitalia.
