Sentences with phrase «tacit assumption»

This picture is complicated, however, by the presence of a subtler lure which appears in Matthew's tacit assumption of the universality of the eschatological love - standard: the implied lure toward the apprehension of this standard as a metaphysical principle — i.e., as expressing something about God's being per se, apart from any special manifestation of it.

«Understanding of the effect of slow motion on mental state attribution should inform the life - or - death decisions that are currently based on tacit assumptions about the objectivity of human perception,» the paper states.

If there is a discussion it may include incorrect tacit assumptions by physician and parent about what the other really wants or means [63].

There has been an almost tacit assumption among policy and measurement researchers that whatever holds true for one subject will likely be the case for others.

I take it as tacit assumption that you rebalance of course.

Hank Willis Thomas, Zero Hour An acclaimed young artist, Hank Willis Thomas often appropriates mass media images and texts, which he manipulates to explore tacit assumptions and attitudes about black identity.

Whereas the exclusive dimension of the christological confession is an obstruction to Matthew's tacit assumption of the universality of God's love - standard, the lures toward that standard and toward God himself form the foundation of the entire witness of the gospel.

When Christians make references to «those sinners» with a tacit assumption that «they» are not us.

The trend of modern thought, with its concentration upon making the most of this present life and the tacit assumption that death means extinction, makes it particularly easy for people to disbelieve in, or to ridicule, life after death.

In most cases we are deceived by the tacit assumption that if and when the criteria are not met, one does not go to war.

The public is deceived by the tacit assumption that because the «criteria» can be listed in common - sense language there must be a shared definition of most of the operational terms, as there is in a natural science or even in law.

Thus when we discover, parallel to the exclusivistic elements in the text, the tacit assumption of a broader principle by which these elements are in fact interpreted, it seems to me that we have the right to speak of a subtle lure toward the recognition of a metaphysical framework within which the call to faith is set.

But it has hopefully strengthened his point and added this dimension to it: there can be little doubt that this «confrontation» between the Christian confession and humanistic acts of a general nature is, if not a programmatic Matthean theme, nevertheless based upon a tacit assumption which is quite integral to Matthew's total theological program.

Along with the centering of the research and writing (and propaganda) almost entirely on male homosexuality, there have been some tacit assumptions about female homosexuality: that it is infrequent (Kinsey put the figure at half that for men); that its causes will automatically be made clear if those for males are disclosed; and that most female homosexuals are unattractive or dominating women who could not get a man.

The tacit assumption was that the physical or metaphysical places in question could be identified with sets of mathematical points, or with knife - edged states, or with quasimathematical monads.

The student of mathematics is taught to be precise in his use of terms and rigorous in his arguments, avoiding the vagueness and ambiguity that play so large a part in ordinary speech, and shunning the intuitive leaps and tacit assumptions that figure so prominently in everyday reasoning.

Since the Enlightenment, it has become a tacit assumption of our culture that the only kind of knowledge worth bothering with is that which can be proven by experiment and described with mathematical laws.

This impression that Whitehead forsook purely scientific considerations for metaphysical ones in work subsequent to The Principle of Relativity thus has issued into a tacit assumption that Whitehead's views on relativity never significantly changed after 1922.

These tacit assumptions running through science, that stem from monotheism, can all be challenged.

And thirdly, there is a tacit assumption that the British empire embodies, under providential guidance, the manifest process of such an historical evolution.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

The first obstacle to constructing a theology of paid employment is thus the tacit assumptions governing Christianity's traditional teachings regarding business and economics.

In the concluding sections of this paper, I want to raise questions about these tacit assumptions.

«By not speaking about it, we confirm the tacit assumption that breastfeeding is somehow dirty or private or not normal.»

Still, after her years at Columbia and Harvard, she recalls many of her colleagues making a tacit assumption, one that caused her to feel unwanted pressure.

Affirmations that life is widespread are founded on a tacit assumption that biology is not the upshot of random chemical reactions but the product of some kind of directional self - organization that favors the living state over others — a sort of life principle at work in nature.

of chimichangas» and «four pairs of assless chaps» that went into the production; if you've seen Deadpool, you will recognize the tacit assumption that anything involving a reference to butts is hilarious.

The tacit assumption in the field was that most families enrolled their children in Catholic schools out of religious conviction, often at the expense of their academic success.

Although the teachers in this study did not use primary sources of either type to a large degree, the title of the article acknowledges a tacit assumption that primary source documents were widely available on the Internet at this time.

The tacit assumption was that sending children to a majority - minority school would entail a sacrifice, one that pits their own children against their (presumably) progressive ideals.

In discussions on cyber security, there is a tacit assumption that the manufacturer of equipment will collaborate with the user of the equipment to stop third - party wrongdoers.

I'm presuming your question presumes U.S. taxation (short - vs. long - term gains) but neither the question nor the OP's profile mention anything about the U.S. Your answer doesn't even mention your U.S. assumption, so the OP may have accepted it not knowing your tacit assumption.

Our tacit assumption that we might be able to hop inside the scene and see the other side of the tree is undermined by the demonstration that there's simply no more information there.

An initial point of discussion might be the tacit assumption that population size should be maximized.

But the problem is that the SAR is constructed from areas of first contact with species (you only have to find one individual of a new species to increment the species counter), so to run the species - area curve backward to estimate species extinction makes the tacit assumption that a species is committed to extinction when as few as one individual of the species is lost.

Why are we arguing whether or not we should take action, while there seems to be a tacit assumption regarding what that action is?

But that tacit assumption wasn't included in my statement, only in your interpretation.

Technically it's literally true, but between the unstated qualifications, and the tacit assumptions too many of the audience will include, it ends up pretty much a «bait - and - switch».

Researchers and parents themselves have challenged the (usually) tacit assumption that having a child with ID is inherently, essentially or inevitably negative [45, 46, 47, 48].