Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

There seems to be an unfortunate assumption that an hour of Chicago-style jazz in prime evening time, for example, could not be justified without the trimmings of a portentous documentary.

At first sight, this appears to be a reasonable assumption to make, as it seems to be a consequence of special relativity, which states that information can never be transmitted faster than the speed of light without violating causality.

" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".

This assumption seems unwarranted on several different grounds.

The basic assumption in this group culture seems to be that an external object exists whose function it is to provide security for the immature individual.

We can use this consensus as a pragmatic guide, either on the assumption that it seems to approximate some kind of valid reality, or simply because it is more " practical " than perceived alternatives.

There may also be an assumption that Epona statues depicted a white horse ( the colour is unknown and this seems to be a confusion with Rhiannon ).

The first one ( top left ) seems to be distributed normally, and corresponds to what one would expect when considering two variables correlated and following the assumption of normality.

While there was no formal provision that recipients of the Bharat Ratna should be Indian citizens, this seems to have been the general assumption.

Thus it seems that the previous assumption of a close relationship between Tylopoda and ruminants is simply due to the fact that all other close relatives ( whales, pigs etc ) are so divergent in their adaptations as to have obsured most indications of relationship, or at least those visible to phenetic analyses.

Some philosophers, in particular, worry that the arguments against ceteris paribus analyses depend on a tacit reductionism about analysis: The assumption seems to be that, in order to give a conceptual analysis of a concept C, you must be able to explain C entirely in terms that have nothing to do with C. For these philosophers, a ceteris paribus clause may be indicative of virtuous circularity in an analysis rather than vicious circularity: That is, that we cannot ultimately explain ( say ) causation in terms that do not tacitly or explicitly have causal implications ; but rather than indicating the need for further analysis, they argue, the ineliminable dependence on ceteris paribus clauses or further causal talk may just show that causality cannot be explained in non-causal terms, but rather that terms like " natural law " and " cause " and " accident " can be explained only in terms of one another, by elucidating the connections between them.

Based on this ( perhaps erroneous ) assumption of objectivity, it seems rational or " logical " to assume that everyone else will have the same experience ; consensus should be high.

Although online arbitration seems admissible under the New York Convention and the E-Commerce Directive, this is arguably an assumption by most commentators, rather than a legal statement.

also claimed that " the demonstration of the possibility of theories of hidden variables may serve in a more general philosophical sense to remind us of the unreliability of conclusions based on the assumption of the complete universality of certain features of a given theory, however general their domain of validity seems to be ".

The assumption that the ' licentiousness ' of the Ars amatoria was responsible in part for Ovid's relegation ( banishment ) by Augustus in AD 8 is dubious, and seems rather to reflect modern sensibilities than historical fact.

" The assumption of this text seems to be that the Old Testament anticipated the messiah and that Jesus fulfilled those prophecies.

The author of the ' Vestiges of Creation ' would, I presume, say that, after a certain unknown number of generations, some bird had given birth to a woodpecker, and some plant to the mistletoe, and that these had been produced perfect as we now see them ; but this assumption seems to me to be no explanation, for it leaves the case of the coadaptations of organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life, untouched and unexplained.

The most probable seems the assumption that PIE */ s / was changed to */ š / after */ r /, */ u /, */ k /, */ i / completely regularly in Baltic, just like in Slavic, but the traces of the effect of RUKI law were erased by subsequent changes, such as the change of word-final *- š to *- s.

The fact that the region was known as Vasconia in the Early Middle Ages, a name that evolved into the better known form of Gascony, along with other toponymic evidence, seems to corroborate that assumption.

The assumption of the well-flying bird evolving into a distinct subspecies on the small ( 2. 6 km² ) island close ( 3. 2 km ) to the mainland seems hard to believe, but Stephens Island must have held a population of many hundred birds in 1894 ( Medway, 2004a ), and the Piopio was apparently a reluctant flyer, not usually being found on offshore islands.

The assumption seems to be based on the fact that Gaunt chose to be buried with Blanche, despite his two subsequent marriages, and on the themes of love, devotion and grief expressed in Chaucer's poem ( see below ) a rather circular argument, as it is partly on the basis of these themes that the couple's relationship is identified as the inspiration for the poem.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

Nothing in the Title shall be construed as the assumption of any liability by the United States for the payment or satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any claim on behalf of any national of the United States against any foreign government.

This has an interesting analogy with the assumption stated by Philippoff that `` the deformational mechanics of elastic solids can be applied to flowing solutions ''.

Under this assumption the space group must be Af and the following are the positions of the atoms in the unit cell.

This is an assumption with which few would be disposed to quarrel.

He also speaks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's `` puerile '' assumption that `` if only he ( Stalin ) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone like F.D.R. himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged ''.

In its simplest form, the assumption of unit-treatment additivity states that the observed response from experimental unit when receiving treatment can be written as the sum of the unit's response and the treatment-effect, that is

The assumption of unit treatment additivity usually cannot be directly falsified, according to Cox and Kempthorne.

The assumption that Altaic is a valid family, but only consists of Japonic, Korean and Tungusic, appears to be restricted to Unger ( 1990 ).

It is also consistent with ZF + DC that every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable ; however, this consistency result, due to Robert M. Solovay, cannot be proved in ZFC itself, but requires a mild large cardinal assumption ( the existence of an inaccessible cardinal ).

" A person ranking at 7 on the scale would be a person who says " I know there is no God ..." Dawkins places himself at 6 on the scale, which he characterizes as " I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there ", but leaning toward 7.

# Utilitarianism, where the practical consequences of various policies are evaluated on the assumption that the right policy will be the one which results in the greatest happiness

1st century BCE ), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed geometrically, using the different lengths of the noontime shadows observed at three places 1000 li apart and the assumption that the Earth is flat.

Many processes are close to adiabatic and can be easily approximated by using an adiabatic assumption, but there is always some heat loss ; as no perfect insulators exist.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

This assumption may not be warranted in certain contexts.

The assumption of differentiability or even continuity is questionable since the Boolean algebra of statements may only be finite.

So the personalist requires the dynamic assumption to be Bayesian.

His General Introduction says " There are no ' verbs ' in Basic English ", with the underlying assumption that, as noun use in English is very straightforward but verb use / conjugation is not, the elimination of verbs would be a welcome simplification.