Sentences with phrase «about fundamental assumptions»

You would do well to remember that Victor is not the only expert around here, and even experts can disagree about fundamental assumptions.

Not exact matches

If selling is going to remain a viable strategy, leaders must rethink their fundamental assumptions about sales, how they allocate talent and resources towards the sales process, and how they assess and compensate performance.

The second fundamental is that we should identify and test our assumptions about market structure.

«I'm fascinated by questioning and researching fundamental assumptions people make about how consumers behave, and the counterproductive things that marketers do,» said Bower.

Begin with strategic thinking to evaluate your fundamental assumptions about site users (what their needs and goals are).

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

Section II offers some comments about the general cast of Altizer's thought and its fundamental assumptions.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

They may go quite far in pointing out how those purposes are not well served by current practices, but as participants they have no leverage for asking about fundamental purposes and assumptions.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

The assumption that Danny wouldn't even consider being the stay - at - home parent — all other things equal — captures the prevailing nature of existing norms about parenting and the need for a fundamental shift in perspective.

The fundamental assumption is that power, in zero - sum terms, belongs to Whitehall and it may release some to a local elite if they are deemed to be responsible and can demonstrate they will behave well (i.e. not make too much fuss about the scale of cuts in local government spending).

Machiavelli fully endorses Livy's assumption that the fundamental question to ask, when thinking about political liberty, is about the distinction between freedom and servitude, and he further agrees that the arbitrary power wielded by the early kings of Rome left the citizen body living as slaves.

However, the idea that if society needs to bring resources to bear it is somehow not a fundamental human right is an argument that seems to make assumptions about being somehow valid more than any demonstration of validity having been made.

So we should be asking ourselves the fundamental question: if [our basic assumptions about what type of individuals appear suspicious] lead us to be right only 5 % of the time, shouldn't the criteria we are using to apprehend individuals be revised?

I'm from New York City, and when we talk about something like «Stop and Frisk», which is also based on the fundamental assumption that black and Latino men (who look a particular way) are therefore menacing and threatening, we understand it as a cross - racial problem.

It struck Muller that many philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence are based on the fundamental assumption that life is finite.

That has allowed her to see things other paleontologists have missed — and potentially to shatter fundamental assumptions about how much we can learn from the past.

That's a fundamental assumption that we've always made about crime and criminals.

But very quickly he realized that there was a fundamental flaw in his assumptions about how laughter worked.

A small group of hunter / gatherers living in the Amazon rain forest is overturning some fundamental assumptions about the mind.

The understandability of the natural world is all the more impressive when one considers the fact that fundamental human assumptions about time and space — the idea that there are 60 minutes in an hour, and that a circle can be broken down into 360 degrees — come from a time with «no articulated sense of nature... no reference or word for it,» according to Francesca Rochberg, professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

When sewage flowed from 20 Class 1 wells near Miami into the Upper Floridan aquifer, it challenged some of scientists» fundamental assumptions about the injection system.

A revolutionary new theory contradicts a fundamental assumption in neuroscience about how the brain learns.

I used to really believe in many of your ideas on nutrition, but I think it's really important to consider a few fundamental assumptions about science and nutrition research in particular.

And along with asking that question, you might consider revisiting some of your fundamental assumptions about our policy and politics, too.

Within No Excuses schools, some are starting to question some of their fundamental assumptions about what makes kids successful.

This over simplistic assumption misses the fundamental point of education; it is about helping children realise their potential, whatever that may be.

In simplest terms, the statistical procedure of the Coleman Report relies on a problematic stepwise analysis of variance approach, which makes strong assumptions about which factors are fundamental causes of achievement and which are of secondary significance.

The next wave of education policy will therefore need to direct itself toward even more fundamental questions, challenging long - held assumptions about how education is managed, funded, designed, and overseen.

SRI's intentional learning communities are transformational because they not only help educators improve their practice, but they also help educators question their fundamental assumptions about teaching, learning, students, and the purpose of schools.

Given the urgency of this challenge, many innovators around the country are questioning and rethinking fundamental assumptions about the high school experience.

This is a fundamental assumption present in the overwhelming majority of commercial products, to the point where games like Style Savvy can be described as vapid or lacking in substance not merely because it's read as a «girl game» and is about fashion, but because there isn't this process of mastery involved.

You making an argument about «observations and confirmed rational understanding of fundamental physics» and bring up the pause of 1940's to 1980's where those observations and rational understanding of fundamental physics» means you can't compare the two without assumptions.

But that doesn't change the fact that some of the fundamental assumptions behind using «GCM» «s to predict anything about the climate are invalid for the type of system they're modeling.

By ideological commitments, I refer to the fundamental assumptions, the implicit lens that we use to examine reality and that are closely related to our beliefs about how the world is and should be.

I fear that efforts toward reform which are conducted without a radical reexamination of our fundamental assumptions about the expression of social policy and the nature of family justice will produce results no better than what we have at present.

I'd like to suggest that we begin by re-examining some fundamental assumptions about «talent» versus «skills» in the legal profession.

The protection of informational privacy «is predicated on the assumption that all information about a person is in a fundamental way his own, for him to communicate or retain... as he sees fit».

The theme for Forum 2012, «Revitalizing Courts with Enhanced Technology and Thought - Provoking Reforms: The Modernization Challenge», is designed to challenge attendees with leading edge sessions, including Enhancing Access to Justice Using Technology and Going Beyond Technology: Revisiting Fundamental Assumptions About Traditional Litigation.

They looked at the way in which people make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and found that their behavior violated expected utility theory — a fundamental assumption of economic theory that holds that decision - makers reason instrumentally about how to maximize their gains.

At least that's the case on ethereum, where developers are beginning to see the scaling solution, which would essentially split the blockchain into parts that would run on different servers, as an opportunity to test fundamental assumptions about one of the world's largest cryptocurrencies.

«Dr. Cole practices therapy from a Client - centered perspective, which holds fundamental assumptions about individuals and the therapeutic process; the actualizing tendency of every person and the self - authority of the client.

What can we learn about ourselves when shifts in power result from fundamental assumptions being challenged by blockchain or presidential direction and policies?

Another benefit is that the friends challenge your assumptions about the fundamentals of managing a company.