The phrase "assume themselves" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a concept of self-identification or self-perception, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "They tend to assume themselves as leaders without any formal training."
Alternatives: "consider themselves" or "view themselves".
In Baldwin's text I underlined the following: Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
He "hinted that most victims are expected to assume themselves to be Rohingya from Myanmar in the hope of receiving assistance from UNHCR" at a meeting with Blinken on Thursday, the state-backed Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported.
The first half of Awakened Family unpacks the most common harmful beliefs that cloud parents' ability to see their children clearly: that parents assume themselves to be perfect, that parenting is not about the adult but about the child, that control is a kind of caring, or that preparing for the future is more important than the present moment.
Having assumed themselves cosmopolitan, the more self-aware pundits began to realise just how parochial they were: having experienced much of the world, they discovered they didn't know their own country as well as they might.
In 1958, a plane carrying 'a jolly gang' of public school boys and girls was shot down, and, assuming themselves to be the first casualty of a third world war, the survivors founded a rather spiffing colony, complete with cricket, Union flags and the Beano.
The Canadian churches, assuming themselves to be correct in their methods of civilizing so-called primitive Indians, failed to catch the subtlety and warmth of the Indian character, to perceive the depth of native spirituality or to acknowledge a culture that had its own rich splendor.
Though this seems misleading, the emphasis of this sentence was that hospital staff incorrectly assumed themselves to be experiencing this surge in 'attempted suicide'.
Almost all of the producers were quite aware of the government's campaign and assumed themselves to be responsible in the campaign.
Greater reflexivity on the part of researchers, that involves an analysis of their own institutional power, resources and positions (in much the same way they would analyse actors in the policy process) and their role in defining research agendas and generating knowledge (rather than assuming themselves to be 'objective' and 'independent'independent
And he equates an unctuous cardinal's 1939 glorification of "France's colonizing mission on the black continent" with the imperiousness of present-day despots who violently assume for themselves, or their ethnic groups, the divine right to govern.
The target of our analysis was therefore based on clinical judgment on dilemmas such as the suspension or the decision not to start a life-saving treatment, the consent of the patient and family, goals of targeted therapies in terminally-ill patients and, lastly, the behaviour the doctors would assume if themselves were the patients.
