The phrase "assuming as it does" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a statement or idea that is based on a particular assumption or premise.
Example: "The theory is compelling, assuming as it does that all variables remain constant throughout the experiment."
Alternatives: "given that" or "considering that".
However, this objection conflates Stevenson's theory of moral thought with a theory of moral properties, assuming as it does that having, for example, an unfavorable attitude towards an event constitutes the badness of that event, at least in part.
The marital rape exemption in law, which survived in the U.S. into the 1990's, is clearly a remnant of this approach, assuming as it does that no crime is committed when a man forces intercourse upon his wife, since she is his own property; the property status of enslaved African-American women was also thought to entitle their owners to the women's unrestricted sexual use.
The Wire isn't, it must be said, the easiest of reads at time, assuming as it does that anyone who picks up a magazine with Jandek or Mantana Roberts on the cover is going to have an interest in music beyond their Spotify Discover Weekly profile.
The FSB assumed, as it did with most foreign journalists, that Harding was a spy.
The Court was wrong to assume, as it did in Citizens United, that "with the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters".
Nor will the Government assume - as it does now when means testing - that pensioners' savings earn 20percentnt interest.
This is certainly one of Trollope's least assuming novels, concerning, as it does, an unremarkable spinster who, having lived a life of Victorian female usefulness to others, suddenly appears to have come into real money – enough to embark on a life of independence at last.
STEVE FORBES: I am hopeful that the president will propose a major tax simplification program in his second term (assuming, as I do, that he will win reelection).
The problem is not that the "real" model is DSGE (New Keynesian theory with intertemporal optimization yada yada); in practice, when it comes to thinking about macro policy Robert Waldmann has it right: most have gone all the way back to an IS curve (real interest and output) assuming AS doesn't matter and with the LM curve replaced with something like a Taylor rule.
The Programme, to protect child rights, assumed duties, as it did in immunisation, which should have otherwise been performed by the Government.
"I assume that you know that Andrew Sullivan is no longer writing TRB," Peretz wrote to Shimansky last September, "and I assume that pleases you, as it does many others".
