Sentence examples for controversial assumption from inspiring English sources

In addition to relying on a controversial assumption that without regulation firms are passing up profitable opportunities for innovation, Porter's evidence for a regulatory "win-win" consisted primarily of case examples and did not systematically estimate employment effects.

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.

The blatantly phallocentric bias of this account, which was supplemented by a highly controversial assumption of penis envy in the already castrated female child, proved troublesome for subsequent psychoanalytic theory.

Should we blame the controversial assumption about metaphysical possibility?

Given our controversial assumption, we can now say that no two worlds differ with respect to the X-facts without differing with respect to the Y-facts.

But the difficulty then is that any such assumption is likely to be a deeply controversial assumption that many theists would certainly reject.

Both proceed from controversial assumptions.

Yonelinas, A. P., Aly, M., Wang, W.-C. & Koen, J. D. Recollection and familiarity: examining controversial assumptions and new directions.

It must consist in more mundane and less controversial assumptions about what married life is normally (though not always) like.

Reading Krystal's subtle and savvy piece, it struck me that our talk of guilty pleasures involves two controversial assumptions: that some books (and perhaps some genres) are objectively inferior to others and that "better" books are generally not very enjoyable.

Embedded in these methods are morally controversial assumptions.