Sentences with phrase «rests upon the assumption»

None of this can be proven, and therefore nothing that rests upon these assumptions can be proven.

Second, their analysis is intriguing, but it rests upon assumptions and data which deserve to be carefully scrutinized.

Most projections of future climate - driven extinctions rest upon the assumption that potential geographic distribution of each species is ultimately determined by the climatic tolerances of the populations that make up that species.

As for the economic impact of mitigating climate change, Stern's 1 percent of GDP calculation rests upon an assumption of stabilization of emissions in the next 10 to 20 years, which he says would make a temperature rise above 4 degrees Celsius unlikely.

It also rests upon assumptions which have not been, and can not be, empirically established.

The validity of all methods of estimating the impact of the intervention rests upon the assumption that outcomes in CfC and comparison sites would have been the same in the absence of the CfC initiative (ie, the construction of a credible counterfactual).

Not exact matches

This basic principle implies that common sense and science must supply all the essential factual knowledge, and that standards of ethics and justice must come from secular philosophies that rest upon uncontroversial assumptions.

When Irving Howe, the good democratic socialist critic of Dissent fame, was attacking in 1966 the whole idea of Counter-Cultural style — I guess Beatle boots, beads, long hair, turtlenecks, denims, etc. — , he said that it rested upon the ``... basic assumption... of the middle class: that values can be inferred from, or are resident in, the externals of dress, appearance, furnishings, and hair - dos.»

Critical scrutiny shows beyond all doubt the untenability of the entire network of assumptions upon which racial discrimination rests, and reveals the true character of racial bias as a device for rationalizing injustices.

These value assumptions rest upon an implicit and often unconscious attitude toward good and evil.

If we try to Imagine that there must be something solid beneath the process, then this is because we are still being tricked by the assumptions of common sense and classical physics upon which materialism rests.

The rejecting - nonpunitive stance appears to rest upon two major stated arguments and two major unstated assumptions — each open to serious question.

Barth's idolatry judgments appear to rest upon several additional — and equally questionable — assumptions.

While it usually makes the assumption that homosexual orientation is much more a given than a free choice, even more fundamentally this position rests upon the conviction that same - sex relationships are fully capable of expressing God's humanizing intentions.

In fact, the distinction rests upon a highly questionable concatenation of social theories, political postures, logical fallacies, and psychological assumptions, and a comprehensive rejection of historical social practices.

The Harvard Project on School Desegregation report examines both these findings and the assumptions upon which they rest using court documents, district and state - level data, and interviews.

The IPCC models depend upon an incorrect assumption that these fictitious «photons» from a cold atmosphere can warm the surface... [Moderator's note — rest of «essay» deleted]..

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

Well, it seems to me you have yet to present a good reason why I should accept your assumption, upon which all of your arguments rest, that the climate is not deterministic albeit complex, on the timescales that humans care about, and therefore predictable given adequate information.

Resting assumption upon assumption upon fudge factor upon assumption, in a model only loosely based on the basic laws of physics, is where problems occur.

While the Respondent argued that the decision to proceed by special case was a discretionary one to which deference was owed, the Appellants argued that the special case was not appropriate because: the questions posed in the special case rested on a hypothetical assumption that the agreements were valid; necessary facts were not included and not all the facts were agreed upon by the parties; and the parties did not sign the statement of special case as required by Rule 9 - 3 (3)(c).