assumptions

In doing so it also challenges certain assumptions that we may have about the level of effective literacy.

Do you find the level of literacy in the broader community to be disturbing? « Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

It may be that this insistence on refining the question, or examining its implicit assumptions, is part of what makes academic criticism less appealing to the 'average intelligent reader,' if what they are after is actually a recommendation ....

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Making moves on nothing more than assumptions is generally a very bad idea.

Think Progress » Atomic scientists push back Doomsday Clock because of Obama’s ‘pragmatic’ foreign policy. 2010

I can't see that either of these assumptions is warranted.

April 2010 2010

I can't see that either of these assumptions is warranted.

Seeking Out Experts 2010

One of your assumptions is clearly in error, John; progressives (and liberals) are not interested in telling people whether they should have children, or not.

Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better. 2010

In December 2008, as the financial crisis deepened, TFG established a reserve against potential unrealized losses on its holdings, to reflect Tetragon Financial Management's "more pessimistic set of short-term assumptions."

Tetragon Shareholder Files Suit Against Polygon Margot Patrick 2011

The degree to which accommodations are made through the design and construction of the SR 520 project deeply depend on certain assumptions regarding light rail for the corridor that have not yet been made by the City or the region.

Council Memo: Rail May Be Possible on Smaller 520 « PubliCola 2010

Though Roosevelt, like most Anglo-Saxon Americans of that time period, still held to certain assumptions of and prejudices against blacks, the fact that he was willing to break bread with a black man – and that his family were present as well – was astounding in a time period where the advances and tentative healing made during Reconstruction were receding to the point of memory.

The Man Who Came to Dinner | Edwardian Promenade 2009

To say that an artist or writer works in a context that has been established by his/her experience of his/her society's practices or assumptions is at best trivial, at worst simply tautological.

Philosophy and Literature 2009