Even some of the most basic assumptions of the Times's campaign are not universally agreed.
Yet the circumcision of babies cuts against one of the basic assumptions of the liberal mindset.
Basic assumptions of the theory of relativity can also be tested.
He is proposing the complete overthrow of the most basic assumptions of Western art since the Renaissance.
Asking Europe to accept a total withdrawal of American ground forces from the Balkans needlessly challenges some of the basic assumptions of the Western military alliance.
If drugs worked, that implied an organic, or medical, basis for neurosis, which in turn challenged some of the basic assumptions of psychoanalytically oriented therapy.
The first thing any critical mind has to note is that the two basic assumptions of homeopathy fly in the face of science.
Hence the last decade and a half has seen a string of films attempting to tectonically shift basic assumptions of the conflict.
Hume's contemporary Thomas Reid hoped to rebut Hume's skepticism by exposing it as the logical conclusion of the basic assumptions of modern philosophy from Descartes onward.
But such conclusions aren't just changing how we think about computers -- they are reshaping the basic assumptions of our lives in misguided and ultimately damaging ways.
Never before have we had a crisis that challenged the basic assumptions of our constitutional system itself, and the basic processes and mechanisms through which it worked.
