Sentences with phrase «basic assumptions»

We have paid a price for these advances, however: the abandonment of our most basic assumptions about reality.

Their findings are the subject of huge controversy and are challenging some of the most basic assumptions about primordial life.

It is just interpreted evidence made with basic assumptions.

The peculiar basic assumptions on the relationship of spirit and matter underlying this idea are foreign to our thought and difficult for us to comprehend.

It has challenged and changed basic assumptions and practice.

Her findings challenge such basic assumptions about animal preservation that her colleagues have put her research — and the woman herself — under the microscope.

If this commitment to avoid reflection about alternative basic assumptions is limited to professional philosophers, then, it may not matter much.

But before looking at these later reflections, we need to examine his second basic assumption, which involves the reality of mentality and thereby of mental causation.

Information about that distant era is extremely limited, and even the most basic assumptions often prove unreliable.

Would you write a law blog that fundamentally challenges the most basic assumptions upon which the legal education system is built?

The reason has to do again with basic assumptions.

Recent research has undermined two basic assumptions about how the brain processes information.

Finally, the results did not support basic assumptions of structural family systems therapy regarding the mechanisms mediating symptom reduction.

If the Universe is still excelerating in it's expansion which it shouldn't be based on Big Dirt Ball theory then we know that even science's most basic assumptions in question.

Both cases — a «Brief Comment Arising» in Nature (that I led) and a new paper from Proistosescu and Huybers (2017)-- examine basic assumptions underlying previously published estimates of climate sensitivity and find them wanting.

Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (International Library of Group Analysis)

The city's reforms force us to question basic assumptions about what K 12 publicly funded education can and should look like.

Actually, so far as basic assumptions are concerned, there is not much difference between neo-liberal and classical economic thought.

But as McFague has said, «for theology to do less than fit our present understanding — for it to accept basic assumptions about reality from a very different time — seems blatantly wrong - headed» (McFague, 14).

In thus clearly defining the sacral institution of holy war, von Rad admits to two basic assumptions which seem to me to be imposed on the data rather than derived from the data.

reconsider basic assumptions.

As successive generations of entrepreneurs and thinkers in other sectors have revisited basic assumptions and built wholly new organizations, educational leadership preparation has clung to aged norms.

MM.LaFleur works off the same basic assumption that President Barack Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did when they made the decision to pare down their wardrobe selections to only two colors of suits or the same grey shirt for public appearances.

The therapist accepts the troubled neighbor in the midst of neurotic guilt feelings and compulsions, not on the narrow assumption that the neighbor is just privately acceptable by the therapist as a friendly human being, but on the much more basic assumption that every person, as human being, is accepted by being itself.

This resolution, however, is ruled out by Kim's third basic assumption — his «principle of explanatory exclusion.»

In his mammoth work Elements, written around 300 B.C., Euclid began by writing down axioms — basic assumptions whose truth was assumed to be self - evident — and using them, with logically sound arguments, to deduce the theorems of geometry.

Along with his MIT neuroscientist colleague Dheeraj Roy and others, Tonegawa is upending basic assumptions in brain science.

By contrast, using catastrophic basic assumptions, Dr. Brown has given scientists a way of addressing many problems that is philosophically sound and scientifically acceptable to objective thinkers.

While there are undoubtedly individual cases where this has been the case (this protein folding code for instance), the vast majority of papers that turn out to be wrong, or non-robust are because of incorrect basic assumptions, overestimates of the power of a test, some wishful thinking, or a failure to take account of other important processes (It might be a good idea for someone to tally this in a quantitative way — any ideas for how that might be done?).

«Boxfish also had a wide ranging contract for the Confederation Line, for tasks from setting up the project's website to challenging basic assumptions like where exactly the rail line should go,» the newspaper reported.

Apply basic assumptions underlying all psychotherapies.

The further basic assumption of a classic extradition system drafted in the Convention (1957) was a recognition of accusation or a conviction for a political offence as a potential bar for extradition.

Recent high - profile cases suggest the need to rethink basic assumptions about witness preparation — to, in effect, probe the essentials of this fine art more deeply than is encouraged in most litigation skills training.

If, however, you lay that basic assumption aside and examine the evidence from an outsider's perspective, then you will find that the evidence is not even enough to be regarded as good circumstantial evidence, let alone enough to justify that the existence of God is more likely than not.

So, too, does faith consist of certain basic assumptions: assumptions about meaning and value, certain attitudes about the proper way to relate to people and to the world, and certain presuppositions about what is most important and most valuable in life.

I. Basic Assumptions of Economic Theory I am honored to have been asked to address you with regard to the World Trade Organization and China.

Moreover, it closely mirrors the theoretical approaches in economics: it is a model which utilises relatively basic assumptions about human behaviour in a stylised choice setting in order to draw conclusions about individual preferences.

But to develop effective math pedagogy for all students, additional basic assumptions need to be present throughout the process, including the idea that:

I do need to mention two basic assumptions before you can make an ePUB or Kindle book.

«The threat of the Trump presidency puts basic assumptions about the identity of this country at risk, and has made the political role of art even more urgent,» says the artist.

But it may be the arena of electric batteries and electric vehicles (EVs) where deployment - driven advances have overturned basic assumptions most people had just a few years ago.