Word Finder - assumptions

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The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

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His assumption of secretarial duties was timely.

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The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

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Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty.

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The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

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The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

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The taking of a person up into heaven.

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A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.

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Assumptio.

I buy something because I have certain assumptions about how much happiness it will bring me.

Often assumptions are made which lead to equations in x which cannot be solved "rationally," i.e.

There is no subject of human study which may not be at some time or other of economic significance, and anything which affects the character, the ideals or the environment of man may make it necessary to modify our assumptions and our reasoning with regard to his conduct in economic affairs.

These assumptions, however, were fanciful.

In his speculations as to the physical cause of the celestial motions, his mind, though not wholly emancipated from the tyranny of gratuitous assumptions, was working steadily towards the light.

He gradually fell under the dominion of two false assumptions.

Such assumptions are not wholly unjustified.

Many assumptions are made in treating of the flexure of a continuous structure which are not strictly true; no assumption is made in determining the stresses on a frame except that the joints are flexible, and that the frame shall be so stiff as not sensibly to alter in form under the load.

Such a distinction involves the assumptions that bodily pleasures are generically different from mental ones, and that there is in practice a clearly marked dividing line, - both of which hypotheses are frequently denied.

But there is another species of deduction which, as Cliffe Leslie has shown, seriously tainted the philosophy of Smith - in which the premises are not facts ascertained by observation, but the a priori assumptions which we found in the physiocrats.

His commentaries on the Scriptures were the first application on an extensive scale of the principle affirmed by Scaliger, that, namely, of interpretation by the rules of grammar without dogmatic assumptions.

While it is evident that some such conclusion must follow from the attempt to regard the cognitive consciousness as made up of disconnected feelings, it is equally clear, not only that the result is selfcontradictory, but that it involves certain assumptions not in any way deducible from the fundamental view with which Hume starts.

There can, on these assumptions, be no doubt that, from the early years of the 5th century B.C., the archonship was of practically no importance.

China and Japan have hitherto been regarded as the chief producers of tea, and the reputed large domestic consumption of those Mongolian peoples has led to assumptions of vast internal productions.

But in such an undertaking one is always apt to take subjective assumptions or mere fancies for established data.

The obvious way of avoiding the scepticism into which rationalism is thus driven is to revise the assumptions about the nature and postulates of truth which lead to it.

But if thus far Grote's protest against prevalent assumptions carries an immediate and unhesitating conviction, it may be doubted whether his positive statement can be accounted final.

In a very short time he settled his fundamental assumptions.

The simplest assumptions to make are that the vapour behaves as a perfect gas (or that p(v-w) = Re), and that L is constant.

From this point of view the equation is a mere truism, its real importance resting on the fact that by attributing suitable values to the masses in, and by making simple assumptions as to the value of X in each case, we are able to frame adequate representations of whole classes of phenomena as they actually occur.

The equation of energy for a rigid body has already been stated (in effect) as a corollary from fundamental assumptions.

We must not suffer it to lead us into rhetoric about the deadness and the darkness of the middle ages, or hamper our inquiry with preconceived assumptions that the re-birth in question was in any true sense a return to the irrecoverable pagan past.

He first introduced into economics on a great scale the method of deduction from a priori assumptions.

He also pointed out more distinctly the nature of the assumptions which we must make with respect to the law of action of the particles in order to be consistent with observed phenomena.

He was at issue, however, with the atomistic materialism of Democritus in regard to its twin assumptions of absolute atoms and infinite space.

But for him the alternative was between Calvinism and Arminianism, simply because of the historical situation, and in the refutation of Arminianism on the assumptions common to both sides of the controversy, he must be considered completely successful.

These and similar assumptions are ultimate presuppositions or working hypotheses for the sciences themselves.

It likewise vindicated afresh the rights of the Christian laity in regard to their own beliefs and the work of the Church, against the assumptions and despotism of an arrogant clergy.

These assumptions are probably not nearly correct and, as the stresses caused by the cooling of the casting are unknown, it is necessary to choose a low working stress of about one ton per square inch.

It serves as a means of research, more particularly in mathematical investigations, the simple laws thus deduced being subsequently modified by introducing assumptions in order to co-ordinate actual experiences.

Expert knowledge and judicial insight must decide the point; but, so far as the present writer can judge, it is illusory to imagine that Duns points us beyond the medieval assumptions.

But the contribution made by psychology to the solution of the problem has taken the form not so much of a direct reinforcement of the arguments of either of the opponent systems, as of a searching criticism of the false assumptions concerning conative processes and the phenomena of choice common alike to determinists and libertarians.

Nor is it possible to give any rational explanation of the idea of responsibility itself upon indeterminist assumptions.

Not the less important is the indirect stimulus given by the Reformation towards the development of a moral philosophy independent alike of Catholic and Protestant assumptions.

Again, the argument that " conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable or painful," and that ultimately " pleasure-giving acts are life-sustaining acts," seems to involve Spencer in a multitude of unverified assumptions and contradictory theories.

But further, it is becoming increasingly apparent that psychology (upon which Taylor would base morality) itself involves metaphysical assumptions; its position in fact cannot be stated except as a metaphysical position, whether that of subjective idealism or any other.

This involves no assumptions as to the law of variation of E.M.F.

It may appear at first sight astonishing that it should be possible to apply so many different assumptions to the solution of one and the same problem.

It is not, however, necessarily implied in the reasoning or in the equations given by Thomson, which are not founded on any assumptions with regard to the seat of the E.M.F., but only on the balance of heat absorbed and evolved in all the different parts of the circuit.

I knew neither how he found us, what information he knew nor what incorrect assumptions he'd made.

Though both assumptions were totally incorrect, neither combatant pointed this out.

This contradicted the assumptions about low levels of involvement of young people.

His assumptions were predicated on this belief.

Its assumptions are fundamentalist principles of which he is himself a faithful adherent.

Earlier studies have used Bayesian inference under simplifying assumptions.

This is a book which is not afraid to challenge assumptions.

Don't make assumptions or put us into boxes.

I have therefore examined the underlying assumptions made by both sides.

However, for Hardin's tragedy to occur several erroneous assumptions about the commons must be made (Shiva, 2002 ).

The baseline assumptions in these simulations are tabulated below.