Not exact matches
I believe strongly in the
need to go through the exercise of building a financial model (can focus mind and expose
hidden assumptions and flaws), and agree that the focus should not be on formal financial documents or even on the resulting numbers themselves (that is, until you are up and running and have real numbers).
There is a
need to draw attention to the bias and
hidden assumptions contained in the text books — and not just in religious studies, but in subjects across the curriculum where political indoctrination is taking place.
Thus, although we still
need to respect the doorbell image, in the sense that the pastor must make himself available to his people and not merely wait in an office until they come, we must reject its
hidden assumptions that pastoral work with people is routine, perhaps dull, and certainly not as central to ministry as preaching.
There are cultural «repertoires of values,» says theologian Bernice Martin, which express themselves through a «
hidden vocabulary» of symbols that saturate popular culture and structure its
assumptions; We
need, therefore, to look at
In a democracy, perhaps we all
need to begin with the
assumption that everyone has something to
hide, a zone of private action and reflection, a zone that
needs to be protected.
We have a cultural problem where we
hide deficits / profit shortfalls through adjusting pension
assumptions, or trading lower salary increases for pension benefit increases, which don't hit the bottom line immediately, but increase funding
needs for years to come.
But I don't think that qualifies as «pseudoscience,» which to me suggests such things as controversial hypotheses masquerading as self - evident
assumptions («ordered complexity implies a designer»), or outright fallacies of inference and errors of fact, perhaps
hidden behind familar jargon («in information - theoretic terms, evolution of the eye is impossible»), or cleverly disguised as well - established results from other sciences («quantum electrodynamics suggests that consciousness is the fundamental nature of reality, and so we don't
need to age, and crime will be reduced if we meditate on it correctly»).
We
need to challenge «
hidden assumptions and stereotypes about the contribution that women should be allowed to make,» as well as the laws that perpetuate them.