The chestnut of secession, slavery and the Civil War still divides us, but here, too, the historical presumptions border on the absurd.
From sidewalk cat calls to parents who encourage gender-based sport stereotypes (i.e. boys who play football or girls who do cheerleading), from the male boss who witholds a raise to lewd comments from older men on the street; which is to say, that the struggle for equality lies in fighting all of the intrinsic close-minded historical presumptions about women.
It overturns one of our historical triumphs, the presumption of innocence.
Spielberg's presumption to historical authority is one of Godard's pet peeves.
Milosz turned this presumption of "historical logic" upside down: if Communism now ruled Eastern Europe, it was not because of the laws of history but because the Russians had burned the house down.
The elaborate construct of the play, its intriguing historical basis and its presumption of moral gravity seems to have pulled the wool over the eyes of some otherwise smart people, among them the director, Neil Pepe, whose production is completely indulgent of Ms. Harris's dark and easy metaphors.
The insistence on naturalistic models for social and historical research leads easily to a presumption in favor of the covering-law model of explanation, but this presumption is misleading.
Nevertheless, analysis or interpretation of letters, journals, artwork, writings, or statements of family and friends of some historical personalities has led to the presumption that they may have had some form of depression.
On these socially constructive historical groundings rest several key heuristic presumptions that are central to Africana philosophy as a metaphilosophical organizing concept of intellectual praxes.
