Sentence examples for the background assumption from inspiring English sources

The background assumption was that in an accident situation, even within the closely defined envelope of the EOPs, crews may act differently.

Two friends, seeing my name on the list just published, compared me with Martin Heidegger — and not because they think "Reduction in the Abstract Sciences" is on a par with "Being and Time". The background assumption, which I find baffling, appears to be that occasionally uncouth language is the moral equivalent of genocide.

This Article examines how members left (or were prevented from leaving) the House of Commons, the colonial American legislatures, the early state legislatures, and the Continental Congress and concludes that the background assumption at the Founding was that legislative seats could not be resigned.

This "supreme principle of pure reason" provides the background assumption under which the metaphysician proceeds.

The background assumption for much animal cognition research is the computational theory of mind.

This selection does not guarantee that they will confirm the background assumption that women are agents.

The background assumptions are so confidently registered that the foreground turns can be pictured in the proper light, too.

In the long run, the workplace privacy movement may prove more transformative, as it may well upend the background assumptions that attend the standard corporate internal investigation.

It is not self-evident that symbiosis-like production systems would be sustainable in every case, as the background assumptions for political promotion of EIPs suggest.

If it is, then "optimal adaptation" is partially confirmed; if it is not, then either optimal adaptation is partially disconfirmed, or the function being performed has been misunderstood, or the background assumptions are faulty.

When new evidence conflicts with a reigning theory, scientists face a choice: they may throw out the theory itself (say, that the sun goes round the earth) or they may reject one or more of the background assumptions which, along with the theory, they need to make experimental predictions.