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It's taken as a given.
This cannot be taken as a given.
"Military service is more or less taken as a given".
We therefore took responses to individual stimuli as a given from empirical observations, and focused on stimulus interactions and effects of attention.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in a speech before her retirement from the Supreme Court, advocated taking as well as giving.
Rather than starting with the introspection of one's own mind and then generalizing to all other humans, the argument for animal minds takes as given that all humans have minds and generalizes from the human species to other species.
There isn't much more that it can easily cut: note how Osborne described the package as being "fiscally neutral", taking as much from taxpayers as it gave.
Popularised in the late 1970s, Lucas's critique of his contemporaries pointed out that it can be very misleading to take as given the relationships between different variables estimated from past data when trying to predict the effect of a major change in policy.
For Descartes, consciousness is taken as given.
But according to the strictures applying to an Aristotelian science no science can probe the existence of its subject matter, but rather must take it as given from a higher science (in this case, metaphysics).
I take that as a given.
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