Sentence examples for tacitly assuming from inspiring English sources

But Du Sautoy lumps them all together, tacitly assuming that the only truths worth knowing depend on acquaintance with pre-existing facts.

He constantly elides these levels, tacitly assuming that the immunological self means pretty much the same as the embodied self, or that a bacterial culture has similar properties to the kind of cultures studied by anthropologists.

Until now, most political operatives and pundits, myself included, have been tacitly assuming that the chances that Hillary won't be the Democratic candidate were lower than one in four.

If one were to assume that 'H2O' is a rigid designator, one might be accused of tacitly assuming metaphysical essentialism.

Second, when Newton invokes the third law of motion in the corollaries to Proposition 5, he is tacitly assuming that, for example, Jupiter and the Sun are, in effect, directly interacting.

This might suggest that many of those who give objectivist responses are tacitly assuming a kind of objectivity on the assumption that the disagreeing parties have a common moral framework, but not in circumstances in which there are different moral frameworks (see Sarkissian et. al. 2011).

She tacitly assumes an interested reader, and she has tacit faith that she can reach that reader.

The finding adds substantially to the evidence that human evolution did not grind to a halt in the distant past, as is tacitly assumed by many social scientists.

In the previous example it was tacitly assumed that the players were maximizing their average profits, but in practice players may consider other factors.

The finger-wagging demand that Muslims condemn acts of terror committed by jihadist cultists is odious: it tacitly assumes that Muslims support such horror unless they explicitly say otherwise.

Gentil has asked for Bellamy because he wishes the inspector to hear his confession — the decent cop, in a godless world, having tacitly assumed the functions of a priest.