Sentences with phrase «background assumptions»
"Background assumptions" refers to the beliefs or ideas that someone holds without even realizing it. These assumptions can shape their thoughts and actions without them being aware of it. Full definition
(Were not David Hume and Adam Smith, under different background assumptions but with the same Augustinian sense for real experience, to make an analogous point?)
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Wilfred M. McClay replies: Both Paul Bischoff and Bruce Marr have misconceptions about the intent behind my article, and about the background assumptions of the symposium of which it was a part.
The background assumptions that had given some plausibility to Christian affirmations about God through the eighteenth century were gone so far as the intelligentsia was concerned.
This point has been pressed not only for the systematic reason that it appears to be a real weakness in the Thomist position but also because much of modern Protestant thought can be understood only against the background assumption that philosophical theology of the Thomist type must necessarily lead to conclusions that diverge from the Biblical understanding of God.
Scholars like Tylor and Frazer were working with the background assumptions of scientistic positivism and empiricism, which were and are deeply problematic.
As it happened, the texts reflect a relatively brief period of the dominance of a variation of Enlightenment thought — although, to be sure, those texts must be understood, as the framers certainly did understand them, against the background assumptions of what in fact was a Christian society and culture.
It will be obvious that one background assumption has been important throughout this book: the best way to the universal is through the concrete particular.
Furthermore, so far as the «voice» of this book is concerned, this background assumption means that I can hope to address «universally» all who are involved in theological schooling only by writing openly and explicitly out of my own concretely particular situation in theological schooling.
Taking these background assumptions into account could be useful in dissecting risk controversies.
Experiments usually require tinkering, theories can be articulated in different ways, background assumptions can often be challenged, and data rarely speak univocally in favor of one theory or against another.
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