These are the background assumptions by which we live.

Instead, it is a whole interlocking group of hypotheses, background assumptions, and theories.

A number of background assumptions are required for parsimony to connect with plausibility in a particular research problem.

In other words, we can only deal with irrationality by contrasting it against the background assumption of rationality.

They have less to do with gender per se than with context, formality, subject matter, the relationship between the participants and their shared background assumptions.

I worried also that intruders might mess up the playground, by violating my background assumptions.

In order to generate interesting conclusions about real statistical populations, it is usually required to make some background assumptions.

Many systems make background assumptions about enabling or preventing access.

This fact suggests that there is a latent frame, made up of cultural attitudes, expectations, and background assumptions, which is part of word meaning.

These background assumptions go up and beyond those necessary and sufficient conditions that correspond to a semantic feature account.