Sentence examples for sense assumptions from inspiring English sources

Adding to that a healthy dose of common sense assumptions, Rabin says his formulas are gradually gaining acceptance among economists who want to model everything from credit card debt and addictive behaviors to investment patterns, impulse shopping and preferences in health care coverage.

Early Confucians had not typically discussed metaphysics, apparently thinking that common sense assumptions about the reality of this world were not in question.

Such understanding is based on our own experience, which in turn necessarily involves certain 'common sense' assumptions, which we use to fit our experience into patterns which make it explicable and comprehensible.

Nevertheless, they still have considerable pre-reflective currency, and for all its oddness, Augustine's suggestion that learning is a matter of being reminded of prior acts of direct acquaintance rests upon a set of common sense assumptions.

There may well be no single conception of time which perfectly fits all our common sense assumptions about it, but Presentism – the doctrine, favoured by Augustine, that neither the past nor the future exist, and hence that only the present is real – fits them better than most.

In 1975, in a seminal paper, Minsky noted that many of his fellow "scruffy" researchers were using the same kind of tool: a framework that captures all our common sense assumptions about something.

That's certainly the common sense assumption, but common sense is wrong.

The common sense assumption has to be that this was a circular structure.

They have breathed in from infancy a "common sense" assumption that the state is always wasteful, private and market always good, the collective worse than the individualist.

These arguments work from the common sense assumption that things often appear to be other than they are: e.g., sweet food can appear bitter, a white object can appear red, in sleep it can seem to someone that he is flying through the air or fighting the Saracens.

Because of this apparently 'common sense' assumption, managers are likely to see implementation of risk management procedures targeting psychosocial hazards as unnecessary in workplaces where OHS costs relate largely to MSDs rather than mental health problems … particularly when this viewpoint is reinforced by the content of current OHS regulations and guidance targeting MSD risk.