Sentences with phrase «rest on the assumption»

While all of these infrastructure policy programs have an explicit focus on accelerating capital formation for infrastructure, they rest on the assumption that information about viable projects is readily available within the economy.

The argument for borrowing abroad to pay workers rests on the assumption that all wages are spent on imports.

I shall then show that this view rests on the assumption of the omnispatiality of God, the assumption that God is everywhere, and I shall attack this assumption, particularly as it is defended by John Cobb, in some detail.

Anselm's whole theory rests on the assumption that God the Father can not freely forgive us without exacting punishment, for if the injustice of our sin is not punished, then injustice would seem to be subject to no law.

The method of analogy rests on the assumption that there is at least a partial identity of structure between the qualitative pattern of the event and our response to it.

This second argument rests on the assumption that capital punishment does in fact reduce the incidence of capital crimes — a presupposition that must be tested against the evidence.

Second, and more crucially, that secular objection (as in the hippie saying I heard so often in my youth: «Don't lay your value trips on me, man») rests on the assumption that someone can authentically sexually donate himself to another without making a definitive commitment to the other person; that is, he can «hedge his bets,» so speak, without paying the consequences ¯ a foolish assumption given the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, the divorce rates, the numbers of children born out of wedlock, and so forth.

See, this entire practice rests on the assumption that everyone would like to be treated exactly as you would.

His entire analysis rests on the assumption that hospitals make more money for C - sections, but there is no set rate for reimbursement for obstetric care.

The case for that rests on the assumption that there is «no alternative», which is at odds with the views of many leading economists.

The House of Lords has little regulation because it rests on the assumption that it is populated by people who know how to behave.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and foods and where we can dump our waste.

Holocene thinking rests on the assumption that there is this big, inexhaustible alien space out there that we call the environment, from where we can get our raw materials and food and where we can dump waste.

The plausibility of this mechanism rests on the assumption that beneficial characteristics are passed more or less intact from one generation to the next.

Yet, the standard model of cosmology rests on the assumption that, on the largest scales, these variations are insignificant, and space is homogeneous and isotropic.

That finding should provide some comfort for cosmologists, whose standard model of the evolution of the universe rests on an assumption of such uniformity.

I ultimately came to understand that the nutrition science I'd learned in medical school was nearly exactly wrong, full of contradictions, and resting on assumptions proved false by researchers in other, related scientific fields.

This strategy rested on the assumption that the public would notice deficiencies and demand corrective actions, giving regulators the power to impose solutions.

For it rests on an assumption of guilt on the part of educators, local officials, and state leaders, as well as overconfidence in the reformers own technocratic ability to interpret patterns in data and identify solutions.

Test - based accountability rests on the assumption that accountability for scores on tests will provide needed incentives for teachers to improve student performance.

Hibbs's argument for making only older comics available on digital rests on the assumption that digital media will be the new newsstand, where people discover comics for the first time, and then they will be steered to their local comics shops, where they will buy the comics in print, as they should.

This outlook, Linn pointed out, «rests on the assumption that only people and / or ecosystems, not individual animals, have intrinsic moral value.

Again, this rests on the assumption that the home console market is a neatly quarantined market that has no crossover with other parts of the gaming industry.

Rather than resting on assumptions, RMI recently released the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, which compares total lifetime costs of PEVs, hybrids and traditional gasoline powered vehicles.

Those assurances rest on an assumption: that the world will take action.

The validity of hindcasting verification rests on the assumption that nothing can happen in the future that has not happened in the past.

The modern social sciences — sociology, psychology, political science, economics, history and, we may add, philosophy — rest on the assumption that the grand and the humdrum events of human life take place against a backdrop of an inert nature.

The important point is that the conceptualisation is not identical with reality, and it rests on assumptions the scientific community in a particuar field of enquiry takes as «given».

Your link's argument rests on the assumption that Bast was keeping open a line of plausible deniability.

The most perceptive comments in Kerr's interviews may have been, as was often the case, from our good old friend Steve Schneider: «All that objective stuff rests on assumptions.

The rationale for public investment in industrial wind energy rests on the assumption that it can cut carbon emissions by replacing fossil - fuelled generating capacity at the same time as providing a cheap source of «renewable» electricity.

This strategy rests on the assumption that investments and follow - up can reduce the costs of renewable energy technologies and enable them to become competitive with conventional fossil fuel - based technologies.

Remember, ALL of this rests on the assumption that CO2 is causing global warming.

Hence, why not adopt a low value for the SCC and rest it on the assumptions that the climate response to CO2 will be as mild as currently thought possible?

Yet Benjamin's conclusion rests on an assumption that humans are still making substantive editorial decisions into the algorithm process, and with the next generation of machine learning and artificial intelligence we are already seeing that this is not necessarily the case.

The majority's judgment appears to rest on the assumption that lawyers are largely fungible.

This analysis rests on the assumption that a healthy work - life balance is a weighty value to challenge.

If my opponent elects to pick and choose which documents they want to produce there is no real mechanism for me to force production, absent seeking an Order at the Settlement Conference (which is often easier said than done and rests on the assumption that you know documents are «missing» to begin with).

To say that a three day factum is of higher quality than a two day factum rests on some assumptions about stated requirements.

This policy rests on an assumption that public housing will deliver better outcomes in all remote Indigenous settings.

Not exact matches

The assumption that these goals were perfectly compatible rested, at least implicitly, on legislators» belief in the presence of a stable Phillips Curve, implying a negative relationship between the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment.

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

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.

Yet their conclusions, in most cases, will rest precariously on assumptions and guesses about underlying Party mechanics and motivations that can neither be proved nor disproved.

If Grisez - Finnis mean to expand their influence out of that corner, they are going to have to persuade people to believe the assumptions about ultimate reality on which their enterprise rests.

Lawyers» stubborn refusal to recognize their affinities with other highly skilled, well - educated sellers of services seems to rest either on the arrogant assumption that businesspeople have no ethics, or the dubious proposition that businesspeople invariably place short - term profit maximization ahead of all other considerations.

Although they try to avoid calling attention to it, the new natural lawyers know very well that their project rests on metaphysical assumptions that the dominant scientific culture rejects.

But, IMHO, this notion rests on two major assumptions: 1) that there is an objectively determinable preferred outcome; and 2) the weighting of particular variables (and their respective contributions to a maximal peak) can be objectively determined.

It is quite apparent, on even cursory examination, that economic theory rests on metaphysical assumptions.

If it is not our collective business to settle theological arguments, why are we creating statutes and committing state resources in support of a practice that rests on the opposite assumption — the assumption that there is no God, or at all events no God who would object to suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia?