Sentence examples for defensible assumptions from inspiring English sources

This becomes possible with the introduction of certain defensible assumptions and/or simplifications to arrive at an accurate but computationally tractable DPF simulation approach, for the needs of industrial users.

One of the less defensible assumptions of microeconomics is that people get paid their "marginal product," i.e., their wage equals the value of the output they produce.

Land values in 1836 made sense given the defensible assumption that Chicago prices would rise to a fourth of those in New York city.

But there is at least enough evidence from fundamental physics for the existence of chances for us to adopt it already at this point as a defensible assumption.

Magnitudes of drug effect were parameterised as fractional reductions from baseline and were assigned uniform prior distributions between zero and one, implying that both drugs have some beneficial effects (a defensible assumption for marketed drugs) and that neither can reduce HbA1c levels below zero (patently true), and assigning equal likelihood to all possibilities between these two extremes.

The principal assumptions, defensible under typical optical waveguide deposition process conditions, are that the silica-rich microdroplets are in local dynamic, thermal and chemical equilibrium with the prevailing high-temperature vapor mixture, through which they drift primarily as a result of (particle size insensitive) thermophoresis.

But whether this assumption is defensible remains to be seen.

Hawthorne (2005) raises the possibility that, in the course of grasping that p entails q, S will cease to know p. He also notes that SP1 is defensible on the (deviant) assumption that a thought, p, is equivalent to another, q, if p and q hold in all of the same possible worlds.

If some lightweight account of semantic values is defensible, we can accept the assumptions of anti-nominalism and Classical Semantics without committing ourselves to any traditional or robust form of platonism.

This assumption is seldom defensible.

Defensible estimates under this approach require stringent assumptions, and in practice the method is rarely used, particularly in an acute-health context.