Sentences with phrase «false assumption of»

This false assumption of «historical fact» was really a set of values or assumptions that interpreted Indigenous societies as lower on the «social scale» than British society and consequently not worthy of legal protection.

A legal fiction is a false assumption of fact made by a court in order to reconcile a specific legal result with an established rule of law.

1: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially: the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

Getting the peers to acknowledge the multivariate coherence will be a monumental feat as it takes away their modeling freedom by wiping out the patently false assumption of randomness.

As noted earlier, eliminating biofuel mandates and subsidies while uprooting the false assumption of carbon - neutrality from EPA's Clean Power Plan would do more to reduce the unfair advantages of bioenergy than even the most inclusively - designed carbon tax.

So, when you wrote, «the same mistake that seems to appear in a lot of climate models, a false assumption of linearity...» you in fact made the mistake; one of supposing an assumption where there is instead a demonstration.

Using error - propagation the way it is done here shows precisely the same mistake that seems to appear in a lot of climate models, a false assumption of linearity, starting from some conditions in a system that is physically strongly non-linear and numerically chaotic.

A false assumption of this type of defense is that since lots of the emails show nothing, it is all nothing.

This is the false assumption of online dating.

Enns rejects this assumption, arguing that «a false assumption of how the Bible ought to behave stands behind this critical and evangelical view.

Not exact matches

Since becoming a teacher, I have heard many false assumptions from people outside of the field of education.

«People have a false assumption that they're more productive working as a group than individually, even though all evidence shows it's the opposite,» explains Nicholas Kohn, co-author of the University of Texas study, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

This assumption and the implicit allegations that Elliott sent anyone to contact the children of these executives are completely false.

Great entrepreneurs know their business plans are always evolving and many of their original assumptions of what will work turn out to be false.

Even if you have success finding seed investment, believing that securing future rounds of funding will be just as easy is a painfully false assumption.

Overpaying the CEO of a company can lead many people to make the false assumption that such compensation is «earned» and justified.

Accordingly, notwithstanding receipt of the IRS private letter ruling and / or opinions of counsel or other external tax advisors, the IRS could determine that the distribution and certain related transactions should be treated as taxable transactions for U.S. federal income tax purposes if it determines that any of the facts, assumptions, representations, statements or undertakings that were included in the request for the IRS private letter ruling or on which any opinion was based are false or have been violated.

«The same false assumptions that underestimates stock - market risk, mis - price options, build bad portfolios, and generally misconstrue the financial world are also built into the standard risk software used by many of the world's banks.

The root assumption that gets Sales VPs fired (although the Board and CEO are equally responsible) is the false assumption that salespeople will find new business on their own from past Rolodexes or lots of cold calls, with a minimum of help or investment from the company.

Doubts, false assumptions and constant updating of ideas, which just forced to make some amendments are discarded.

My assumption is that a book from God would dispel some of the ignorance of his followers who had totally false ideas of the earth they lived on.

-LSB-... this] ought not be surprising — except to those who carry a burden of false assumptions about love, celibacy, and their relationship... As a mature man, he took the decision to express his [proven] capacity for love as a celibate in the priesthood... He was choosing to express his love and his paternal instinct spiritually, through the gift of his life in service to others.

Is not this whole assumption that Jesus was concerned «with a new selfhood, irrespective of whether it be conceived individualistically or in terms of the historicity of human existence, based upon a false theologizing of the historical Jesus?

The assumption of the secularizers and the atheists that the reality of God stands or fails with the reality of metaphysics is false.

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The reasonable response to an incorrect assumption is to correct it rather than just saying that my assumptions are false with no actual indication of an assumption you think I made which is false.

Those rest on his uncritical use of sources, his false assumptions about both European and Near Eastern societies, and his enthusiasms for staged drama rather than accurate analysis.

Examining the most famous recent example of such a system, the rights - based liberalism of John Rawls, Greenawalt clearly recognizes that this basic modernist assumption is false.

If you have not been on our end of the equation, you have not experienced the anger, bitterness, unkindness, false assumptions and a long list of other things that regularly come our way from some Christians.

I especially like the parts about the rather abstract sense of victimhood, which blinds us to real suffering, and the assumption that modern thinkers aren't «rational agents» who give arguments that need to be engaged, because they're characteristically neither wholly true nor wholly false.

It is the kind of ignorance that perceives the partial and proclaims it to be the whole; that is unaware of its own subjectivity and therefore makes and repeats false and prejudicial assumptions; that can not separate the truth of experience from the interpretation of that experience.

He has often been a vociferous promoter of science in the Church, calling for good Catholic scientists and indeed priest - scientists to counter the false assumption that science is a realm of atheism.

Yet the assumptions of the dominant economic theory are rather obviously false.

Yet, in my opinion, the assumptions are demonstrably false and the consequences of acting on them are disastrous.

There are false assumptions in the objection just proposed that we would like to uncover, assumptions based on a static view of reality.

It has sometimes made the false assumption that where men have the spirit of love they can be indifferent to the structure of power in their social relationship.

But the root cause of the opinion that God is a threat to human creativity is due not to a defect in logic but to the false assumptions derived from a static frame of reference that pictures God as a metaphysical and Transcendent Other, and this world as an autonomous natural order.

I think Cobb would agree that the only alternative to this position leads to a lack of self - consciousness about one's philosophical assumptions and thus induces a false security as to the adequacy of one's theological formulations.

Scheck reports that in his The Apostolic Fathers, Lightfoot «said that the assumption that Christians forgot nothing but magnified everything in connection with their persecutions is shown to be altogether false,» pointing out that no Christian source preserved a record of the Bithynian persecution, perhaps the most severe one the early Church suffered.

Reviews of some of the early volumes in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible exemplify this false assumption.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

A false assumption delivered in the context of an insulting judgment is hardly a pretext for serious dialogue.

Hence, MacArthur looks at abusive practices in charismatic / pentecostal circles and points at the false belief outside of the truth, but at the same time, his beliefs are rooted on what you and I would believe is a false assumption, that certain gifts are no longer in operation today.

Carl, saying that RH's use of a fallacy «thereby conceded the argument» is itself a fallacy, The «Argument From Fallacy» Fallacy, which sis the potentially faulty assumption that if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, then the conclusion itself is false.

It is an opportunity to address some of the false assumptions in the minds of many of our people and to bring out the profound harmony between Catholic truth and true human compassion, which is the purpose of this column.This is really an opportunity to take our people deeper into the life and work of the crucified Christ.

I argue that much of the sudden rise in our expectations was under - pinned by false assumptions made at the time about our perceived prospects — our expectations — of winning the League and it therefore follows that whilst the major part of this disappointment was due to the teams dip in performance — my second conclusion is that at least some of our huge disappointment was undoubtedly down to us fans (aided and abetted by the media) getting carried away with our expectations.

@nickw Guess instead of reading the article, you just followed in lock step and started making false assumptions.

There also can be the false assumption that talent is God - given, rather than the product of hard work.

The internet is a wonderful thing but false information is ubiquitous, which may render many of our assumptions and conclusions moot.

Maryanne Higgins, IBCLC, a childbirth educator, doula, and founder of Barefoot Baby's Birth Services, suggests that most women self - diagnose under false assumptions, believing, at one point or another, that they do not have enough milk.