Sentence examples for problematic assumption from inspiring English sources

One problematic assumption concerned compliance.

Under liquidity-trap conditions, this is a very problematic assumption, and I don't mean to drop my skepticism for other purposes.

A second problematic assumption of standard economic models is that people are properly attentive to all relevant costs and benefits, even those that are uncertain, or that occur in the distant future.

On this question, Mr. Ellis is noncommital: "While we can never know for sure," he writes, "the balance of historical scholarship over the last 40 years has made that a highly problematic assumption".

Natural selection bypasses the problematic assumption that individual organisms could alter themselves through deliberate effort.

This may not be the only problematic assumption of the Wheeler and Feynman theory.

But this says more about the inherent and problematic assumptions and beliefs of the industry than it does about the games themselves.

With its actors frequently disrupting the scene and addressing the audience, the play draws attention to the problematic assumptions we are all too used to seeing on stage, setting up racial and cultural stereotypes in order to undermine and question them.

Moreover, they make morally problematic assumptions including, for example, whether to differentially value years saved in different stages of life and how to disvalue specific disabilities.

A second category of feminist concern regarding much research in sociobiology and evolutionary psychology involves problematic assumptions of a coarse causal connection between genes and behavior.

Authoritative eugenics programs, in contrast, were coercive state programs designed to promote social goods, and were based on problematic assumptions about hereditability.