That moment passed long ago, but despair, defeatism, cynicism and the amnesia and assumptions from which they often arise have not dispersed, even as the most wildly, unimaginably magnificent things came to pass.
We are all just harvested data to feed their overblown computer models, these great beeping, burping machines, oiled by slippery assumptions, from which they hope to divine the invisible truths about our world – and to predict the future.
But this violates the unshakeable assumptions from which Olivi begins, because it would then turn out that the will is not autonomous, not making its own choices, hence not a suitable object of one's zeal or friendship, among other things.
As discussed in this review, using the IC algorithm and related techniques involves accepting specific assumptions, from which the causal sufficiency seems to be the strongest one.
Any mathematical model, no matter how complicated, consists of a set of assumptions, from which are deduced a set of conclusions.
Fractured surfaces were inspected and fatigue data were analyzed using a standard procedure for calculation of fatigue life with a semi-elliptical surface crack assumption was performed; from which parameters of the Paris law for fatigue fracture were obtained.
Both "Colossus" and Ferguson's previous book "Empire" proceed from a controversial assumption for which he makes no apologies: it is that empires have as often been a force for progress as a source of oppression.
An assessment is only as good as the assumptions and information from which it is drawn.
The main advantage of this test is that it makes no assumption on the distributions from which the samples originated.
If in this examination they arrive at some clear truth from which the assumption follows necessarily, they conclude that the assumption is true.
