Sentence examples for received assumptions from inspiring English sources

It is curious, too, that the voices of adult learners – who can so powerfully disrupt received assumptions – are almost absent.

Scientists cannot help operating on their beliefs about the world (even scientists act within the framework of culture), but most are blind to the lines between their scientifically validated understanding of the world and received assumptions.

Mahmood made path-breaking contributions to contemporary debates on secularism, opening up new ways of understanding religion in public life and contesting received assumptions about both religion and the secular.

A vague aura of superiority to the commercial mainstream clung around it still, but really only as a hangover from the past: a set of received assumptions adopted by each new generation of the indie demographic, which kept on reconstituting itself in the same way that every year a fresh crop of first years arrive at uni.

This approach uses "art" to question some of the received assumptions that underlie our conception of "history". We will discuss texts drawn from a number of different fields in the humanities (e.g. philosophy, anthropology, philosophy of history, science studies, visual studies, and art history), that address the "work" of the image.

This collection shows how the study of past politics can be deepened by theory and practice from political science, sociology, and economics, and how the application of quantitative methods to received assumptions can expand our understanding of all political history.

Authority is measured as the number of RTs received: the assumption is that a higher number of re-tweets signals higher prominence as a source of information.

Why have they received an assumption of being safe for us all without scientific evidence?

When a critical communication on an account closure is left to snail mail, and that mail is never received, the assumption that the bank has done all it can reasonably do to inform the customer is just slack.

The present paper shows that concepts from other cultures may challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, received wisdoms, and established conventions.

"Of crucial importance to the exhibition is an earnest desire to question received or fixed assumptions of 'Africanness' as either a cultural signifier or aesthetic primer in the work of contemporary African artists," the exhibition's description reads.