These phrases and the assumptions behind them offended Gandhi, who drew attention to them in a speech to the YMCA in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1925: "My own experience in my travels throughout India has been to the contrary... [Man] is not vile.
He explains: 'Frege's argument that sentences cannot denote propositions of course depends on the assumption that descriptive phrases denote individuals.' For an elaborated discussion, see Janssen 2001, 2011; for information on the history of intensional logic, see Montague 1970b (1970b
As Russell puts it, the assumption that every denoting phrase must refer to an existing entity was the type of assumption that exhibited "a failure of that feeling for reality which ought to be preserved even in the most abstract studies" (1919a, 165).
And there is at least a sense of the phrase "what it is like" in which the tacit assumption is true also: Recall that some theorists have used that phrase simply to mean a sensory quality (in sense (3)); so again the assumption would be tautologous.
Contrary to the assumption that there is a common definition among medical professionals about the phrases used the results showed virtually no congruence between the professionals' rating.
And the assumption that a) we are and b) no one would be bothered by the aforementioned phrase, astounds me.
The assumption plays out".
"That was the assumption".
The assumption of guilt replaces the assumption of innocence.
That was the assumption, anyway.
