However, knowledge of the underlying assumptions and basic principles of development is required to implement them properly.
8 The Schein model of organisational culture, as previously discussed by Hughes et al 33, suggests that in order to truly understand an organization, a deeper knowledge of the underlying assumptions needs to be analysed, and not just the observable patterns of behaviour.
When I first began to read literary fiction I could assume neither a clear backdrop of political and social stability, nor a confident knowledge of the world and assumptions of national power.
Cartwright (1992) argues that we can sometimes generalize from a single careful experiment, "where we have sufficient control of the materials and our knowledge of the requisite background assumptions is secure" (51).
Like all aspects of human experience, political philosophy is conditioned by environment and by the scope and limitations of mind, and the answers given by successive political philosophers to perennial problems reflect the knowledge and the assumptions of their times.
The aggregation of impacts requires knowledge of (or assumptions about) the relative importance of impacts in different sectors and regions.
Knowledge of model assumptions and the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of different approaches are fundamental for designing models for estimating the probability of morbidity after heart surgery.
Given our knowledge of the growth process, this assumption is likely to be unrealistic in most instances.
Many contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind and self-knowledge, accepting a modern variant of the assumptions of Cartesianism, are committed to the view that in using mental predicates, we (or the subject) attribute(s) to the subject a mental state or condition of which her subsequent behaviour is a causal, contingent manifestation.
All required assumptions were agreed with the team before the analysis was carried out and without knowledge of how these assumptions might affect the results.
