"The illusion of knowing another person creates the possibility, the freedom, of not knowing them; to be free, by not knowing them, to do something else with them" — that is, mistreat them, on the basis of our presumed understanding.
I think that there's enough of a presumed understanding that when you step outside on a public street, you are surrendering some of the privacy rights you might have in your apartment or in church, or inside other buildings.
Mapping anatomical brain networks with graph-theoretic analysis of diffusion tractography has recently gained popularity, because of its presumed value in understanding brain function.
They presumed an understanding but did not create it.
Of course, "a reverence for the constitution and laws" presumes an understanding of the constitution and concern with the principles of justice that the laws are meant to embody.
Since most genetic variation lies in nonprotein-coding regions of the genome whose presumed function is entirely regulatory, understanding gene regulation in a cell type and developmental state-specific manner will be important to connect human genetic variation to disease mechanisms.
The examples are mostly contemporary, and the text presumes a basic understanding of human reproduction.
This claim is important because the classical account of cognitive processing, (and folk intuitions) presume that representations play an explanatory role in understanding the mind.
Second, persons are presumed to be instrumentally rational and so capable of understanding how the satisfaction of their desires can be helped by cooperative social interaction.
They were baffled at the choices made and incensed that a group with apparently no cultural understanding of their centuries-old traditions should presume to judge.
