"What's great about it is it makes you examine your everyday assumptions about where women's hearts are," said Barbara Gregorich, the author of two books on women and baseball, who wrote an essay that accompanies the exhibition.
But it would also have demonstrated how some of the formerly radical ideas of the Internet boom, far from dying out with the collapse of the stock market bubble, have become everyday assumptions in today's political and economic life.
Like a story by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Fountain" dispenses with everyday assumptions about time, space and causality and tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors.
There are mysteries — summed up neatly in Werner Heisenberg's famous adage "atoms are not things" — lurking at the heart of quantum physics suggesting that our everyday assumptions about reality are no more than illusions.
According to Elaine Sciolino, the American-born author of "La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life," the intricately, often rigidly formalized pursuit of pleasure constitutes France's "unofficial ideology, a guiding principle codified in everyday assumptions and patterns of behavior so well established and habitual that they are automatic".
The exhibition features the work of 13 artists who challenge our everyday assumptions.
It's also more than consistent with the anything-in-the-whole-wide-world enthusiasm that guides many of Mónica Cervantes' artistic choices; she finds creative possibilities where others might see only the rigid fixtures of everyday assumptions.
We identified five key themes shared across the different projects that captured patients' experiences and highlighted everyday assumptions about the patient standpoint that might not be addressed in the development of interventions designed to improve care for complex patients.
For telephone workers, challenging everyday assumptions by offering alternatives to embedded routines required some skill, flexible thinking, and patience together with the ability to manage the unexpected realisation of the disclosure of a problem which many people were not aware they had.
But if we abandon the simplifying assumption that everyday reasoning is based on classical propositional logic, then validity and consistency checking only become harder.
The time-geographical approach, developed by Hägerstrand [14] and further developed by Ellegård [6], is based on the assumption that everyday life consists of activities that take time to implement and perform and are always situated somewhere.
