Sentence examples for gratuitous assumption from inspiring English sources

Mellor argues that the existence of essences in essentialist accounts of natural kinds is simply a gratuitous assumption.

Impressionistic method has given way to systematic inquiry from which gratuitous assumptions are, if possible, excluded.

2. This assumption is not gratuitous.

Gratuitous, too.

But the assumption that, if two articles are priced in the same currency, they must contain quantities of a common substance is gratuitous.

Or gratuitous?

Stark, gratuitous.

Note that gratuitous "lamely".

"They are not gratuitous.

It's just gratuitous.

Literature is necessarily gratuitous.