Sentences with phrase «political assumptions»

The fact the business letter is leading bulletins on the Today programme hints at the deep political assumptions of the political mainstream.

According to Longino, the preference for linear hierarchical theories over complex interactive theories comes from conservative political assumptions about the proper ordering of society.

On the other hand, I've been having a rather odd week listening to some people who, in theory, accept the science of climate change but have bought a truckload of political assumptions with them.

Out of an abundance of charity to Professor Leach, and with all due respect to his unimpeachable contributions as Chair of the Alberta Climate Leadership Panel, his argument may well rest on a more nuanced political assumption: that Alberta's leadership is required to bring the rest of the provinces along.

Finally, I full accept that maybe some long held political assumptions should be re-assessed but I hold to one clear principle — there are conservative forces and progressive forces in society which are in conflict.

Cuccinelli strategist Chris LaCivita said some polls of the race, including the Quinnipiac survey showing McAuliffe up by six points, have been based on political assumptions that turnout will be like it was in 2008 or 2012.

It should be emphasized that this is an example in which political assumptions are applied so widely that they constrain reasoning in an area (the life cycle of slime mold) that has nothing to do with the human sciences.

Perhaps the most interesting element of «Spartacus» is its buried political assumptions.

Instead, science only lends Environmentalism credibility through the «precautionary principle `; it is superficially plausible that anthropogenic CO2 will cause global catastrophe (given a substantial number of mainly political assumptions), therefore it is worth treating the possibility of a nightmare as a certainty, according to this doctrine.

Martin Buber, another major figure to emerge from the tumultuous interwar years in Germany, is often thought to be, like Strauss, a critic of the cultural and political assumptions of the «scientific study of Judaism.»

«To be this reckless and dismissive of the economic interests of so many Americans, the Republican's political assumption must be that they have lost the «blue» states anyway,» Cuomo said.

The government's plans were based on strategic and international geo - political assumptions, many of which have been shaken over the past month.

«But that doesn't mean it will override their political assumptions or party philosophy.

Political assumptions can thus blinker our thought, restricting the range of theories we might consider.

Acceptable entertainment has to flatter and exploit the cultural and political assumptions of the land of its origin.»

To point this out, though — to point to the problems with the science, or to ask questions about the political assumptions and consequences of these arguments — is to seem to be «anti-science», or to betray a mindset that is preoccupied with conspiracy theories.