Sentence examples for very assumption from inspiring English sources
But the very assumption that such a zombie exists begs the question".
The very assumption that a human could create a god is arrogant, as is the assumption that such a 'god' would take a profound interest in human affairs, or be motivated by Western enlightenment values like technological progress.
It not only poses a challenge to the idea of widespread black support for the Union effort, which surged after Lincoln came out in support of emancipation in 1862, but it also challenges the very assumption that the war was about slavery at all.
Note that in such a case one tests the hypothesis by relying on the very assumption that the expansion of mercury indicates increase in temperature.
To him the basic fallacy was the very assumption with which Keynes had started out: the assumption that the healthy, the "normal," economy is an economy in static equilibrium.
Indeed Moore's argument rests on the very assumption that it seeks to prove: that only the notion of 'good' is necessary to make all the evaluative judgements we might wish to make.
In the Aranyakas, Vedic ritual is interpreted in a symbolic rather than literal manner, and the Upanishads question the very assumptions on which Vedism rested.
"Our mutual security need no longer depend on a nuclear balance of terror," Mr. Bush declared, surrounded by members of Republican administrations who once defended some of the very assumptions that he challenged today.
But our sympathetic formulation allows an even more effective way of criticizing the conservative position: not by arguing against its key assumptions but by arguing that those very assumptions lead to contradictions.
Educators say that, for adults, one way to nudge neurons in the right direction is to challenge the very assumptions they have worked so hard to accumulate while young.
Among other things, this means challenging the very assumptions by means of which people are split up into two and only two sexes and two and only two genders.
