Sentence examples for common sense assumption from inspiring English sources

The common sense assumption has to be that this was a circular structure.

That's certainly the common sense assumption, but common sense is wrong.

They have breathed in from infancy a "common sense" assumption that the state is always wasteful, private and market always good, the collective worse than the individualist.

These arguments work from the common sense assumption that things often appear to be other than they are: e.g., sweet food can appear bitter, a white object can appear red, in sleep it can seem to someone that he is flying through the air or fighting the Saracens.

Early Confucians had not typically discussed metaphysics, apparently thinking that common sense assumptions about the reality of this world were not in question.

Nevertheless, they still have considerable pre-reflective currency, and for all its oddness, Augustine's suggestion that learning is a matter of being reminded of prior acts of direct acquaintance rests upon a set of common sense assumptions.

There may well be no single conception of time which perfectly fits all our common sense assumptions about it, but Presentism – the doctrine, favoured by Augustine, that neither the past nor the future exist, and hence that only the present is real – fits them better than most.

In 1975, in a seminal paper, Minsky noted that many of his fellow "scruffy" researchers were using the same kind of tool: a framework that captures all our common sense assumptions about something.

But Hume mitigated his skepticism: even though we cannot know that causality is real, we do tend to think in terms of causality, and so we can continue to accept this and other basic "common sense" assumptions as long as we understand that we cannot fully justify our belief in them.

During this time, although we have learned a good deal (and some of it goes against earlier "common sense" assumptions, such as the real role and toxicity of tangles and plaques), we have not made any progress toward reliable non-invasive early diagnosis of dementia, let alone preventing or curing it.

Research bears out the common-sense assumption that well-educated teachers are more effective than poorly educated ones -- a lot more effective, in fact.