Out must go meaningless assumptions and the even more meaningless calculations resulting from them.
An "outlier" like nuclear war, asteroid hit, deadly pandemic, or some other global catastrophe could render the assumption meaningless.
Exposures estimates <0.001 quantum are biologically meaningless under these assumptions since fractions of spores are not viable.
My wife might tell me that her phone says it's going to rain, so I should take my umbrella, and every step of that transaction would be meaningless without the fundamental assumption of truth.
How can families today (mom, pop, kids, pets) sit down together in their family room to watch a show where two men spend their time chasing women for the purpose of having meaningless sex, projecting the assumption that it is shallow but acceptable behavior?
But Research Councils UK, whose statement on public access is a masterpiece of meaningless waffle, relies on "the assumption that publishers will maintain the spirit of their current policies".
What follows is that you cannot be sure that such events are distributed evenly across trial groups, and therefore every between-group comparison under the assumption of prognostic similarity is meaningless.
Unfortunately, under the assumption that all basic instructions are meaningless, it is hard to maintain any compositional theory of meaning: if all basic instructions are meaningless, the compositionality thesis would lead us to conclude that all programs in the language are meaningless.
Both foreshocks and aftershocks, which are meaningless in seismotectonic investigations, were identified and removed by using the assumption reported by Gardner and Knopoff (1974).
Of course, this is not always the case -- psychopaths being the extreme example -- but, without the assumption, much of what we say to each other would be meaningless.
