Sentences with phrase «certain about this assumption»

There is only one way to be certain about this assumption and that is for the predator to «check» out the suspect prey.

Not exact matches

It's an argument about what should happen, given a certain assumption about the justification for excess returns.

You can't assume the same unspoken values, you can't even speak in the same language because it makes certain assumptions about how terms are going to be interpreted.

At first he qualifies this as «a theory» — that is, he seems to recognize his assumptions as unproven guesses — but then rolls right ahead as though he is stating facts about which he has certain knowledge.

It occurred to me yesterday (as I was skillfully avoiding an encounter with a certain someone at the grocery store) that the most frustrating thing about being seen as an «outsider» is knowing that when people talk to you about faith, they approach the conversation with the assumption that you have nothing to contribute to it.

In the company of discerning teachers and learners, my education was being shaped out of certain assumptions that had as much to do with living life as with thinking about it: that we are «in relation» whatever we may think of that fact, that the most basic human unit is not therefore «the self but rather «the relation»; and that this intrinsic mutuality demands — and should be the foundation of — our ethics, politics, pastoral care and theologies.

Indeed, he goes out of his way to show that, given certain assumptions about the ahistorical nature of the Bible, Darbyite premillennialism arose in a natural, even logical way from the scriptural text.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

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.

The training we receive in the scientific method and model construction habituates us to making certain assumptions about who we are and how we relate to nature.

One little recognized factor in the usual formulations of Christology is a certain assumption about the meaning of the word man.

I'm less certain about things, less convinced of my previously held assumptions.

Even the most diverse of nations requires some sort of commonality, that is, certain shared assumptions about life that set the tone for the larger society and for just governance.

Yet much that has been written about the Vatican and Pius XII, who served as pope during the crucial years from 1938 to 1945, is based on certain assumptions.

In what follows I will show that the first assumption is clearly wrong and that the second assumption glosses over certain important distinctions Whitehead made about his doctrine of ingression.

All of us go through life making certain assumptions about our existence.

It does this by using certain unconscious assumptions about the statistics of the natural world — suppositions that can be revealed by visual illusions.

But although it's comforting that the beryllium results are fully compatible with current theoretical ideas about the early universe, Beers warns that it's not quite certain that all of Pasquini's team's assumptions are valid.

The researchers acknowledge that using brain scans to study human cognition has its limitations because it relies on certain assumptions about the links between brain regions and their functions.

It's a model that seems certain to make us question assumptions about how we organize classrooms and schools.

The political argument for involving parents and other community members more substantially carries along with it an explicit challenge to the traditional, hierarchical leadership and power structures in schools.156 According to Leithwood and Prestine (2002), the policies and reforms that call for decentralized decision making rest on certain important assumptions about the role of the principal and other school leaders.

Less certain, however, is whether its adoption can push educators, students and families to re-examine assumptions about the very purpose of high school.

«Our team entered the audit with certain assumptions about what our ratings would be.

And to a certain extent, that's true: flexible designs make no assumptions about a browser window's width, and adapt beautifully to devices that have portrait and landscape modes.

Giselle has her certain routines for grocery shopping, her «Excel sheets in her head» about her daughter's nutrition, her assumptions about suburbia and what her life should entail.

It's the kind of book that sets up readers» expectations about a certain kind of «genre fiction,» and then completely upends those assumptions, resulting in something both unexpected and thoroughly satisfying.

While all three major banks offer an APR estimate through their online mortgage tool, their fees and rates carried certain best - case assumptions about the borrower that make it difficult to identify the most affordable mortgage provider.

To produce the last $ 36,000 of income, they tap into their TFSA which will have grown by retirement to about $ 320,000 (based on certain reasonable investment assumptions).

Keep in mind that the savings rate calculations so far have been based on certain assumptions about Social Security retirement benefits, the real rate of return you can expect on your investments, and a safe withdrawal rate from your retirement savings.

The firm figured that, based on certain assumptions, about 650,000 current renters under 50 years old could afford to carry a $ 350,000 mortgage (which is about 10 per cent less than the average resale price in the country), assuming that they put 20 per cent down on an uninsured 30 - year mortgage with a 3.75 - per - cent mortgage rate.

On a mortgage security, the average length of time that each principal dollar is expected to be outstanding, based on certain assumptions about prepayment speeds.

Further, a certain amount of it is misinterpreted, or, those writing about it, even really bright people, don't understand the hidden assumptions that they are making.

While this in itself is a bit of an overstatement (there is plenty of insightful travel journalism out there to offset the generic pap), Thompson proceeds with an accurate roundup of the elements that conspire to create bad travel writing: throw - away words like «hip,» «happening,» «sun - drenched,» «undiscovered,» and «magical»; imperative language that urges the reader to «do» this, «eat» that, «go» here; stories that depict tourism workers (taxi drivers, hotel clerks, bartenders) as «local color»; the fake narrative «raisons d'etre writers invent to justify their travels»; the untraveled writers and editors who assemble authoritative - sounding travel «roundups» from Internet research; the conflicts of interest that arise when writers fund their travels with industry - subsidized «comps»; publications running what is essentially the same story over and over again, never questioning stereotype assumptions about certain parts of the world.

On the second page, responding to MPA's image Mars, Harney and Moten write:» maybe the cool thing about this picture, maybe about pictures in general, is that if you linger your vision doubles, interacting with irreducible blur that's already there anyway in a way that solicits certain assumptions regarding (the relation between) ontology and representation.»

What Kelly set out to do, Richter in a certain sense challenges that assumption about what a modern artist can be.»

«I wanted to create some other kind of dialogue between the viewer and myself, about what they are looking at, and why they ask certain kinds questions, or make certain kinds assumptions.»

She also draws attention to two other factors that can, at times, govern the interpretation of a female artist's work by the academe: the «assumption that women's work is going to be about themselves» and the fact that, in art historical literature, «technical or formal characteristics of certain types of works are assumed to be feminine: smallness of scale; lightweight; delicacy; sewing; craft.»

The thing about technical auditing (or QA / QC in engineering calculations) is the need for the reviewer / auditor to «buy» certain assumptions that the originator makes.

As mentioned earlier, the DICE model accounts for the impact of CO2 emissions on warming by computing Monte Carlo simulations based on certain assumptions about temperature sensitivity to CO2 emissions.

In short, their findings, based on a survey of 85 power plants consisting of 299 separate generating units across 14 provinces, accounting for some 5 % of China's coal - fired generating capacity, challenges certain long - held assumptions that outside observers have harbored about China's coal power industry.

He added that certain processes, such as how clouds will respond to changes in the atmosphere and the warming or cooling effect of clouds, are uncertain and different modeling groups make different assumptions about how to represent these processes.

This is more or less making certain assumptions about the partial derivatives of e.g. «global average temperature» with respect to all sorts of stuff that are almost certainly untrue and are very likely not even true enough to be a reasonable short term approximation (the separability).

You make assumptions about impacts that are far from certain — and always lead the discussion back to dogmatic assertions about your obsessions.

No answer there, until VTG's partial answer (I'm now not sure it was an answer because of the reference to the paper Judith co-authored, and as has been pointed out, that paper may just be an argument based on certain assumptions that would make my question inapplicable, although the question as to whether Judith's assertion about CO2 / ACO2 «dominance» is in contradiction to Lewis» range of sensitivity may still be a valid question, I think).

This is unlike how carbon emissions from a flight are calculated, even those these too are a bit of an abstraction: Certain assumptions are made regarding the planes used on a given route, by particular airlines, how full the plane is (generally about 75 %), et cetera, to come up with the emissions for a route that are a good representation of the flight.

On the other hand, being aware of journalists» preferences, the climate scientists may be the more encouraged talking to journalists the more certain and convinced they are of the publicly held assumptions about climate change.

The modelers begin with certain assumptions about climate that they build into the model.

He made certain assumptions about facts which are at the heart of the conflict, namely the location of Chevron's head office, its places of business and the connection between Chevron and Chevron Canada.

In my discussions with members of the profession about licensing, I hear certain repeated themes or assumptions.

Should both parties act on a mistaken assumption about a certain provision, this can override the terms of the lease, with potentially costly consequences.Introduction Ordinarily, the parties to a lease either abide by its terms or,...