Sentence examples for ordinary assumption that from inspiring English sources

Put another way, the philosophical skeptic challenges our ordinary assumption that there is evidence available that can help us to discriminate between the real world and some counterfeit world that appears in all ways to be identical to the real world.

It would assume the same tax rate for capital gains and other income — an assumption that would automatically end a lot of games that are played now to convert ordinary income into capital gains.

What we know of Zeno's arguments certainly accords with the notion that they were meant to challenge ordinary assumptions about plurality and motion.

The most famous of these purport to show that motion is impossible by bringing to light apparent or latent contradictions in ordinary assumptions regarding its occurrence.

Ordinary assumptions cannot be trusted.

Brad DeLong offers a short and lucid list of the basic assumptions that govern economic policy in most developed countries in ordinary times — as opposed to those that govern economic policy during sharp economic downturns.

In order to use ordinary concepts like "chair" or "restaurant" they had to make all the same illogical assumptions that people normally made.

Underlying all the research, of course, is an assumption that ordinary people -- or at least ordinary marathon runners -- age at the same rate as elite athletes.

Together with the plausible assumption that ordinary objects (if they exist) are all composite objects, nihilism entails that there are no ordinary objects.

In France, the unshocked assumption that ordinary people lie a lot means that you can talk about lies, and punish them appropriately, without turning every lie into a capital offense.

Second, it illustrated Ms. Stewart's presumably foregone assumption that ordinary citizens would not recognize -- and possibly condemn her for -- the expensive bag, which has been celebrated for its subtlety.