Sentence examples for assumes rather than from inspiring English sources

In practice, Mount simply assumes rather than dramatizes Gus's passivity; there seem to be pieces missing not only from the character but also from the characterization, as though he's thinner than he's meant to be.

As Studtmann (2007) puts it, Aristotle " assumes rather than defends a posture of realism with respect to the metaphysical structures of the world".

Plumwood argues that since deep ecology assumes, rather than denies (as deep ecologists claim), the discontinuity thesis, deep ecology is a conceptually flawed environmental philosophy.

Now, Aristotle certainly belongs to this latter tradition of speculation about categories: he assumes rather than defends a posture of realism with respect to the metaphysical structures in the world.

One objection is that the subset view assumes rather than shows that M has any causal powers at all, and that this is the key question at issue (Kim, 2010).

Even so, specific laws are often assumed rather than predicted.

The six move through their rondelay without credible motive, their various attractions assumed rather than explained.

Solutionists err by assuming, rather than investigating, the problems they set out to tackle.

Here an S1-earthquake (maximum design earthquake) is currently assumed, rather than an S2-earthquake (extreme design earthquake).

The love between Sonny and Carol, which might violate the rules against workplace fraternization, is assumed rather than dramatized.

Charles's practice of writing regularly to ministers was an "innovation", "something he has assumed rather than inherited".