Sentences with phrase «most general assumptions»

I have always rejected what seems to me to be the two most general assumptions concerning contemporary art.

Not exact matches

The fact that Whitehead makes so little use of the consequent nature in most of Process and Reality can be explained by his assumption this was not a topic for general metaphysics (depending upon the special insights of religious experience) and so could not be employed in any purely metaphysical investigation.

But the term nowaways usually connotes, in the words of my dictionary, a «set of general unexamined assumptions,» and these are for the most part simply the parochial prejudices of one's time and place.

We encourage a general goodwill, on the assumption that most people, whatever their mistakes, are headed in the right direction.

In what could be described as his most remarkable speech since his assumption of office, Prof Yakubu detailed the commission's achievements, just as he outlined the tasks ahead, as the Commission prepares for the 2019 General Elections.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

When I first started writing this series my primary goal was to dispel the prevailing assumption among most in the general population and many in both the clinician and research communities that behavioral and neurodegenerative disorders were deep, dark, mysterious entities where, because so little is known about them in terms of both cause and treatment, their occurrence is mainly a matter of back luck and bad genes.

The authors» second assumption they imply: that the two most often used teacher evaluation indicators (i.e., the growth or value - added and observational measures) should be highly correlated, which many argue they should be IF in fact they are measuring general teacher effectiveness.

Heiko, I think that their assumption is that most people have no clue of what the natural or anthropogenic atmospheric levels of CO2 are (note the general tone of the article) but are constantly bombarded with the idea that we are pumping tremendous amounts of a very dangerous gas into it.