noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a reasonable assumption
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It is a reasonable assumption that he pressed the wrong button.
an underlying assumption
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There is an underlying assumption that new technology is always a good thing.
challenge a view/an idea/an assumption etc
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Viewpoints such as these are strongly challenged by environmentalists.
false assumptions
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false assumptions about people of other cultures
implicit criticism/threat/assumption
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Her words contained an implicit threat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
basic
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It was easy to see what their basic assumption was.
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Like the stomach surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down on the couch.
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Furthermore, the pure climatic-geomorphological point of view involves two basic assumptions , which one would hesitate to make.
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A basic economic assumption in a market economy is the continual adjustment of supply and demand toward an equilibrium point.
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It remains one of the basic archaeological assumptions , however, that the two are linked.
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A basic assumption was that they would be the experts on everything.
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When a similar picture is adopted for the crystallization of a polymer certain basic assumptions are made first.
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Their basic assumptions are very clear.
certain
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The majority of the procedures themselves and of the theoretical results describing their properties rest on certain assumptions .
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In developing our scenarios, we made certain assumptions .
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Some equations, asserted in a certain context or on certain assumptions , have to do with parts of causal circumstances.
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In addition, Sharpe and Lintner made certain assumptions about the nature of the market: 4.
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We can measure productivity but with motivation we can only make certain assumptions that improved motivation may lead to improved performance.
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This contradicts certain of the assumptions and theories which are popular in explaining patterns of inequality in employment.
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When a similar picture is adopted for the crystallization of a polymer certain basic assumptions are made first.
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There are certain assumptions in the study of pottery from an evolutionary perspective.
different
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The theories discussed below may have evolved from different assumptions , but it is still difficult to discriminate completely between them.
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This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.
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To overcome this problem many policy papers which examine population ageing produce a variety of projections using different fertility assumptions .
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Rather, they embody some very different assumptions about education and work for the twenty-first century.
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Both of these expressions, however, have rather different underlying assumptions .
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There were, said McGregor, a different set of assumptions that were well founded in behavioral research.
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Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions , but using an entirely different legal framework.
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They entail quite different assumptions about the nature of literacy than those put forward by Hildyard and Olson.
false
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In human terms the reasoning which had been presented to him was filled with flaws and false assumptions .
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This can be shown to be a false assumption , however.
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It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.
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There is an assumption in it, and, I contend, the assumption is false .
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He should not put words in my mouth, however, or make false assumptions .
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Because of these false assumptions , Labour's appeal is restricted.
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But the false assumption is that everybody can be reclassified as a wealth creator.
fundamental
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Second point: is the constructivist's fundamental assumption not justified if knowledge is our subject of study rather than successful behaviour?
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But there is a danger that the current reforms will leave untouched fundamental assumptions about the lives and needs of service users.
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However, subsequent excavations at Maiden Castle, Arikamedu and Charsadda have inevitably caused many of his fundamental assumptions to be refuted.
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Is it perhaps time to re-examine some of the fundamental assumptions underlying that policy?
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The fundamental assumption was that Time will always discover and avenge any act of injustice.
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Although Friedmann found only one, there are in fact three different kinds of models that obey Friedmann's two fundamental assumptions .
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This approach must first identify and question three fundamental assumptions on which most conservation thinking currently rests.
general
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This highlights the second major difficulty with the theories, the general assumption that there is a unitary dimension of arousal.
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The following computations are based on both general assumptions about all families and specific assumptions about families at specific income levels.
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There was a general assumption , he declared, that nothing that exists, exists without a cause.
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Honest answers to these questions suggest that the general assumption that growth in one country benefits the entire world is highly dubious.
implicit
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The second aspect seems even more important: it warns against false generalisations and implicit assumptions .
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However, there are in fact several implicit and unproven assumptions hidden in the account I have just given.
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We begin interactions with an implicit assumption that other people determine and control their behaviour.
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One part of our task is to draw attention to implicit , underlying assumptions which inform the theoretical stances adopted.
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It relates to two powerful but implicit assumptions in the messages of women's magazines.
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The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest.
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Sontag argued against what was in effect the differentiated mode of signification implicit in the assumptions of uptown culture.
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Eventually other, initially implicit , assumptions were to be unearthed and modified.
reasonable
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For the most part this is a reasonable assumption to make.
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This is a reasonable simplistic assumption , but it is the best that will normally be possible.
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It is a reasonable assumption that improvements can be made even to the best of schools.
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Given a few reasonable assumptions about f, it is guaranteed to find a best path from the start to a goal.
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The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made.
underlying
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Both of these expressions, however, have rather different underlying assumptions .
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In the classroom, cultural analysis encourages students to examine for themselves the underlying assumptions in the texts they are studying.
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They have questioned the whole underlying design assumption of the private car as a throw-away product.
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The underlying assumption appears to be one of integration.
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We agree with the underlying assumptions of the Kingman Report and, in essentials, with its conclusions.
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Conversely, activities which seem on the surface to be the same may turn out to realize different underlying assumptions .
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The underlying assumption of the project is that certain computer-based experiences can help pupils bridge the gap between arithmetical and algebraic thinking.
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In the methods I described as essentialist, the underlying assumptions are qualitative rather than quantitative.
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based
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As I have implied, many of Durkheim's conclusions are tautological or based upon inaccurate assumptions and evidence.
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Such are the perils when one acts based on outdated assumptions .
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Steady-state forecasts are always based on some assumptions about social system behaviour.
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My writing is based on the assumption that the less money you spend, the more authentic your experience.
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The policy may be based on an assumption that not many houses are required in the whole district.
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Such a recommendation, the panel added, was of course based on the assumption that the Reclamation project was still feasible.
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This criticism is based on the assumptions on which the model is based.
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The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
challenge
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We rarely sit down to challenge some assumption we have always used.
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They ended by challenging many of the assumptions of scientific management and establishing that work had both social and psychological dimensions.
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Transnationalism and interdependence challenge the three assumptions of Realism noted by Vasquez.
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In doing so, they challenge the assumptions of the modern worldview as never be-fore.
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No-one challenged the assumptions which ran throughout the lecture.
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The furore among providers about current government-funding policies which challenge the latter assumption suggests that this is a real danger.
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Another move might have involved challenging some assumption in the protective belt such as those concerning refraction in the earth's atmosphere.
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Moreover, the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated.
depend
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The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence, discussed below, and on the allocation series.
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Therefore, the choice of method depends on which assumption is closest to reality.
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The result described does however depend on strong assumptions .
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Electronic commerce depends on the unspoken assumption that computers cooperate efficiently for seamless information sharing.
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They depend on assumptions which have been made and on uncertain future events.
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The projected totality of all conventional and nonconventional natural gas sources depends significantly on the assumptions made.
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Whether such a steady state is locally stable depends on the assumptions made concerning expectations.
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As results depend on the assumptions , those chosen for these examples are deliberately modest.
make
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These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality.
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Conservatism makes few assumptions about human nature.
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However, she makes two highly questionable assumptions that must be challenged.
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I was already learning not to make any assumptions about what he might or might not do.
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Rather, they can act only as a guide to decision making by making the assumptions underlying the decisions explicit.
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The researchers are making assumptions based on their preliminary human findings and the changes observed in animals.
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But they are making the assumption that people eat.
question
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One must also question the assumption that single-discipline degrees are themselves immaculately unified.
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Because we are still questioning the assumptions , there are no theories.
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And she knew she was annoying them whenever she questioned their assumptions .
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Odilon Redon questioned the universal assumption that the photographic image was a transmitter of truth.
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Reworking her rich and cultural history to question Western attitudes and assumptions .
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The Regional Council also questioned the assumptions on costs in the Government's paper.
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There is therefore a need to question this assumption that aggression is a given element which somehow has to be accounted for.
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There are at least two reasons to question the assumptions underlying such notions.
rest
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The majority of the procedures themselves and of the theoretical results describing their properties rest on certain assumptions .
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The strategic order among the major nuclear powers is fragile, however, because it rests heavily on the assumption of nonuse.
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Political theory rests on the assumption that these activities are central to the functioning of a democratic society.
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However, such schemes rest on the assumption that the small businessman already has an idea he wishes to develop.
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But when the proof comes it also turns out to rest on the assumption that it is already true.
work
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It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations.
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Politicians seem to work on the assumption that the early bird catches the voter.
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When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
work on the principle/assumption/basis etc that
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Gamekeepers worked on the principle that any other animals that preyed on pheasants must be ruthlessly eliminated.
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It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations.
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It works on the principle that the pursuer will not be able to change direction as efficiently as the prey.
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Politicians seem to work on the assumption that the early bird catches the voter.
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The therapy works on the principle that like cures like.
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These devices work on the principle that the oscillating frequency of a crystal under an applied voltage changes with crystal mass.
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They work on the principle that most people pay up if they're pestered for long enough.
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When a crime is reported to the police they do not work on the assumption that anyone could have done it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At that time we had to make the assumption that the disease was spreading and take action to stop it.
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Eden acted on the assumption that his allies would support him.
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Yes the Socialists will probably win -- that seems a fair assumption .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any decisions made about allocations are not value-free but are now based on the original assumptions about the weightings.
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Here we see that Bourdieu criticizes structuralism for its assumptions, not of too little, but of too much scientific objectivity.
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It is clear that Dworkin does make this assumption .
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Questions to be explored include: How large is the gap between policy assumptions and social reality?
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The report also notes the confused assumptions that governed the relationship between Kimmel and Short.
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We also need to make assumptions about the knowledge of the people with whom we are interacting.
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When historians and anthropologists first began to investigate the issue of pre-patriarchal cultures they made two assumptions.