The phrase "guiding assumption" is an acceptable and correct phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when referring to something that is assumed during the course of a discussion, process, or plan, and that influences the outcome. For example, you might say, "One of the guiding assumptions of this project is that we need to finish the research by the end of the year."
But how true is its guiding assumption that childhood is paradise?
But the Greeks' guiding assumption -- there is nothing funny about laughter -- turns out to be thoroughly up to date.
The examiners believed that the teacher made the school, a guiding assumption in the emerging ethos of testing.
Their guiding assumption, gleaned from endless Internet research, was that they would get a third of the space for the same price.
While there is still intense debate among scientists about the feasibility of the administration's plan, the guiding assumption in the Pentagon is that sooner or later the technology can work.
The will of the executive remains steadfastly opposed to intervention; its guiding assumption is that the cost of stopping genocide is great, while the political cost of ignoring it is next to nil.
The guiding assumptions of the most humane & progressive thought during almost 2 centuries of Socialist idealism & Amer.
If policy choices are to deal with the underlying issues, then the alternative values, guiding assumptions and scalar strategies encompassed by rival narratives need to be appraised and reconciled with the specific livelihood challenges of rural people and the need to secure an inclusive and equitable society in a changing global environment.
We demonstrate that technologies, digital storytelling in particular, can be utilised as a tool to support these guiding assumptions.
One of the guiding assumptions underlying the institutional design of the welfare state is that the "normal" way through which the majority of the population secures its livelihood is gainful employment in the private or public sector.
The controversy has reopened old debates about what should be the guiding assumptions of education.
