I am disappointed to see Tripathi fall for the commonplace assumption that the Chinese spent three decades doing nothing, or suffering passively the blunders of their erratic chairman.
We should challenge the commonplace assumption that politics is an activity reserved for a narrow band of elites, and that voting is pointless.
Contrary to the commonplace assumption that women speak more, there is now mountains of evidence, claims Cameron, that where status is not a factor there is no difference between men and women; where status does matter – such as office meetings – men talk much more than women.
Studies of the past few decades — including "King and Messiah as Son of God" (Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins) and my own "Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation" — have overturned these once commonplace assumptions.
If salvation is his goal, his method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions.
Depending on whether one retains commonplace assumptions about what we can think or about what there is in the world, the Parmenidean thesis can lead either to a bloated ontology or a very restricted psychology.
That individuals have a taste for variety is a commonplace assumption, and the demand for variety in other spheres has been shown to be associated with income and education ([Behrman and Deolalikar, 1989]; [Gronau and Hamermesh, 2008]).
It is a commonplace assumption, for instance, that they were undone by overly generous union contracts.
Yet this pessimistic conclusion only follows under the assumption, derived from the Commonplace Thesis, that all chancy events are random.
The safe, the sound, the commonplace.
