You might think that the right response is to operate on the provisional assumption that this relationship will continue to hold, rather than simply assume it away because it isn't properly microfounded — and you'd be right, in my view.
(Recall our provisional assumption in section one that parthood is two-place. We are now considering a reason for dropping that assumption).
It is better to make the provisional assumption that his interest in volition derives, like other main elements of his philosophy, from the early Stoa, though with greater emphasis.
Under the provisional assumption of a causal edge between E1 and E2, our objective is to determine which direction best explains the data.
The former usually features the provisional assumption that GE covariance is absent, while the latter places great emphasis on GE covariance arising in plausible notions of genotype environment interplay or person environment interplay (Loehlin and DeFries 1987; Plomin et al. 1977; Scarr 1992; Scarr and McCartney 1983).
It means in the six months since April the trust has operated on assumptions and provisional figures.
In the up-to-date accounts of scientific inquiry, the corollary would be "the evidence of things not directly seen," but things that can be brought to (indirect and provisional) visibility by the assumption and application of powerful theories and the procedures they call into being.
There is currently no complete phylogeny of birds to the subspecific level, so our analysis is provisional and depends on the assumption that taxonomic hierarchies contain information about the branching patterns of evolutionary trees.
With respect to the consumption outcome, it was not judged credible to make assumptions needed to enable provisional estimation of a SMD and its standard error, due to the level of ambiguity in the reporting of these outcome data and the lack of scope for imputing data from similar studies in this specific case.
And yet nothing whatsoever in democratic theory entitles us to the assumption that such a provisional consensus will emerge.
Given the evidence of pervasive artifacts uncovered here, and in many other molecular phylogenetic studies of deep relationships as well [ 6, 48, 50, 52, 53, 55- 60], that assumption must be considered provisional.
