Sentence examples for assuming against from inspiring English sources

In general, the worry about Joyce's debunking argument is similar to the worry about Street's: unless we start out already assuming (against the realist) that there are no knowable moral truths, it is hard to see why we should accept Joyce's premise that we possess a complete non-moral geneaology of moral judgment, and hence that it is explanatorily superfluous to posit moral truths.

It tends to assume, against all odds, that the traditional and the modern are ultimately compatible.

Through Riefenstahl's genius as a filmmaker, the 'content' has — let us even assume, against her intentions — come to play a purely formal role".

Unless you assume, against all evidence, that the fiscal multiplier is close to or below zero, this will serve as a nasty brake on an already anemic recovery.

So, if you hang a medal around the neck of a chameleon, are you honoring the animal's capacity for flexibility, for channeling the currents of its times, or for the colors it has assumed against its most recent background?

But it warns that the EU's regulatory regime is "not fit for purpose" because it assumes, against the scientific evidence, that GM plants pose a greater risk than conventional crops.

For one thing it assumes – against all expectation – that the judges who currently wield the black marker pen under the public interest immunity (PII) system are as gung-ho with it as the executive will be if it succeeds in usurping this power under the bill.

"It assumes, against the overwhelming evidence, that every Muslim believes in the most radical interpretation of Sharia law, when in fact millions of American Muslims are fully reconciled with democracy and the protection of minority rights".

In addition, equivalent vaccine efficacy was assumed against penile and a subset of head and neck cancers associated with HPV 16 and 18 for both vaccines.

The model that we assume against the database structures is a model called the 'random-walk model' (also called the 'freely-jointed chain model' or just the 'ideal chain model').

The annual proportional reductions in HPV-related disease incidence due to vaccination were also proportionally adjusted due to the difference in efficacy and duration of protection assumed against non-vaccine-HPV types vs. vaccine HPV types 16 and 18.