Sentences with phrase «tacit assumptions about»

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Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

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.»

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

He wonders aloud about «What happens when you begin to call into question your tacit assumptions and unarticulated presumptions,» suggesting that you begin to become a different person.

John Dewey's philosophy of «Art as Experience» is contrasted with tacit aesthetic assumptions about music that music teachers often hold as a result of the aesthetic meme inherited from their...

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.

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.

Without that assumption (and hence tacit endorsement), the paper is as of much scientific interest as 19th century papers about how long it takes for ants to wander outside circles of specific diameter.

On a personal note, it's encouraging for me to see a law school finally paying attention to social psychology (and I can only hope that Yale and other schools will start thinking about individual psychology as well): it has always struck me as completely bizarre that although there is a tacit assumption that law has something to do with human conduct and is not just an exercise in art — if, as Shelley says, poets can be legislators, then lawyers can be poets — there is not one moment spent in a student's legal education in exploring the nature of the human actor.