The phrase "assumptions against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing beliefs or ideas that are in opposition to something else, often in a critical context.
Example: "The report challenges the assumptions against the effectiveness of the new policy."
Alternatives: "beliefs opposing" or "preconceptions countering".
He nowhere tests his basic assumptions against actual behaviour.
And an end to the discrimination and prejudicial assumptions against private hire drivers.
Taken together, these made the traditional assumptions against equal marriage incomprehensible.
Traditions can, as Pannenberg argues, check their normative assumptions against their self-projections.
No logical principle stops scientists from choosing different background assumptions against which to interpret their observations.
This paper details an initial two-dimensional numerical model developed in order to test various modelling assumptions against experimental field wind data.
Instead, he simply assumes that he knows nothing and defends that assumption against attack.
New England (beaten on penalties after leading 3-0 at half-time in extra time in the 3rd round) could have told them that's a dangerous assumption against Harrisburg, and the Islanders came back with goals in the 52nd and 54th minute, to threaten an upset.
Physicalism is the background metaphysical assumption against which the problems of philosophy of mind are posed and discussed.
Authors' response: We wanted to test the Poisson assumption against the empirical distribution of births, because many field studies do not have access to an empirical distribution of births.
Therefore, the authors made a conservative assumption against Mezavant and supposed that the remission rate of Asacol-patients receiving an increased dose of Asacol is equal to the remission of Asacol-patients who received an increased dosage of Mezavant in the extension study (= 61.0%).
