We've been wanting to do this for a long time, and to begin with, let's share some bedrock assumptions.

Tang's first article argues that Mearsheimer's logic is flawed because his five bedrock assumptions cannot lead to his conclusion.

If this television season has told us anything - and television always plays back society's bedrock assumptions - it is that suspicion defines the national character.

Both defendants and many of the leading proponents of I.D. make a bedrock assumption which is utterly false.

His bedrock assumption was that the U.S. would flinch in the face of horrendous casualties.

The axiomatic argument, which rests on accepted precepts (i.e. we reach some bedrock assumption or certainty)

We should instead question the bedrock assumption that good science equals beneficial science.

Harris says it should not be surprising that normative ethical sciences are, or would be, similarly founded on bedrock assumptions (Basic norms).

To begin the discussion, let's share some bedrock assumptions.

Mr. Bush plans to order a reconsideration of two bedrock assumptions of cold-war military policy.