"illegitimate assumption" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe an assumption that is made without evidence to support it, a conclusion that is not well-grounded or reasoning that is faulty or misguided. For example, "The nation's current immigration policy is based on an illegitimate assumption that all immigrants are criminals."
Secondly, even though the static input output model has a classical tradition (Kurz and Salvadori 2000a, 2006) regardless of illegitimate assumptions (e.g. value-added coefficients in price theory), its treatment of capital in the dynamic model is typically neo-classical which cannot survive the critiques raised by Sraffa's work (Sraffa 1960) and the following capital controversies.
They will muddy the public's ability to comprehend that the GOP's public policy "debate" rests on the discredited and illegitimate assumptions of Reaganomics and "American exceptionalism".
There is a consistent, principled, empirically-grounded approach to judicial review that is capable of fulfilling the Framers' vision of the courts as bulwarks against illegitimate assumptions of power by government and with Americans' expectations of "equal justice under the law".
There is equally no doubt from our perspective that Roberto Micheletti's assumption of power was illegitimate".
The condition that only legitimate states are morally entitled to be self-determining is significant because, given the plausible assumption that many existing states are illegitimate, this argument would not justify the immigration policies of many current states.
And clearly, many metaphysical starting assumptions rule this world picture out as illegitimate.
But it's a necessary tool, he said, in a business freighted with assumptions that the work of a decorator is somehow illegitimate.
T-TIP reverts to the pre-Depression assumption that laissez-faire is the norm and any attempt to tame market forces is illegitimate.
Quit having illegitimate babies".
