This transparency of background unstated assumptions and common knowledge is the beginning of self-reflection and the capacity to break out of given molds.
It is context, mostly, an unstated part of his background.
Our everyday conversation takes place against a rich background of unstated expectations — what linguists call "implicatures". Such implicatures can seep into psychological experiments.
Kieron, the youngest of two brothers and a perennial outsider, grows from childhood to early adolescence against a background of unstated but obvious poverty.
We diagnosed essential, unstated premises as biological background assumptions.
What is unstated is that, whether in the background or the foreground, the essential conflict will go on.
Deductive reasoning uses background knowledge to construct (by unstated means) a hypothesis that is tested experimentally to produce observations.
Being quasi-relevant yet also useless made these suggestions feel even more creepy — highlighting the unstated fact of their being powered by intelligence Facebook had gleaned via background surveillance.
Contextual notes generally amplify or clarify the information in a document by providing historical background, biographical data, fuller descriptions of mentioned events, clarification of ambiguous passages or words, unstated outcomes, correction of erroneous information in the text, or other information about people and events that could not be found by reading the documents alone.
That said, and despite some background filler, Mr. Macdonald isn't interested in furnishing history lessons, and the details of Britain's African adventures remain largely unstated.
This mission had gone unstated.
