A common way out of this argument is not to answer the question ( e. g. with a simple ' yes ' or ' no '), but to challenge the assumption behind the question.

The assumption behind this theory is that syntactic properties of phrases reflect the meanings of the words that head them.

The assumption behind this worldview was that each nation was as powerful as its patron god.

This is the assumption behind feature selection algorithms.

However, as Jean S. Pictet, Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, noted in 1951, " the law, however, always lags behind charity ; it is tardy in conforming with life ’ s realities and the needs of humankind ," as such it is the duty of the Red Cross " to assist in the widening the scope of law, on the assumption that … law will retain its value ," principally through the revision and expansion of these basic principles of the original Geneva Convention.

Both Brady and Allingham note that the motivations behind the victory lap can be traced to the province's history of a fifth year of secondary school education, making it a basic assumption of secondary school life for students in Ontario.

The fundamental assumption behind the theory is that propositions are composed of two terms – hence the name " two-term theory " or " term logic " – and that the reasoning process is in turn built from propositions:

The key assumption behind all sustainable harvesting models such as MSY is that populations of organisms grow and replace themselves – that is, they are renewable resources.

Fitch, an evangelical, argues that an underlying assumption behind much expository preaching is an individualistic understanding of scripture and an over-reliance upon the expository preacher as the means by which God works in the church.

Prompted by her advisors, she gives the command to attack the UPSF ( under the assumption that they were behind the assassination plot ).

The assumption behind Figure 5 is that the frequency f < sub > 0 dB </ sub > lies between the lowest pole at f < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 /( 2πτ < sub > 1 </ sub >) and the second pole at f < sub > 2 </ sub > = 1 /( 2πτ < sub > 2 </ sub >).

The cornerstone of defensive tactics in Winchester Football matches for many years has been the assumption that conceding a behind ( 1 point ), is always preferable to a goal ( 3 points ).

The main assumption behind all learning psychology is that the effects of the environment, conditioning, reinforcement, etc.

Linguistic determinism is a partial assumption behind a number of recent developments in rhetoric and literary theory.

The basic assumption behind dense mode is that the multicast packet stream has receivers at most locations.

An assumption behind this model is that women were constrained from certain activities due to decreased mobility resulting from pregnancy and their role in raising young children.

The argument behind this assumption, that men possess greater upper-body strength, was dismissed by Gero, who pointed out physical strength is not an imperative quality in someone skilled at making stone tools.

From his " Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages " of 1940, through his " Dynamo and Virgin Reconsidered " of 1958, to his Medieval Technology and Social Change ( Oxford University Press, 1962 ), his work refuted the assumption that the Middle Ages were too preoccupied with theology and / or chivalry to concern themselves with technology, the assumption behind Henry Adams ' antitheses of Virgin vs. dynamo, but widespread elsewhere as well.

The concept of apperception and the assumption that everyone's thinking is shaped by subjective processes provides the rationale behind the Thematic Apperception Test ( TAT ).

The basic assumption behind the Clinique method is the maintenance of hygiene and cleanliness as the foundation of caring for all skin conditions.

Though it is possible a group is behind the attacks, the prevailing assumption of the investigation and media reports is that one man is behind the crimes.

Patrick Collinson has made a case for Thomas Wood as the editor, and M. A. Simpson has questioned the assumption that there was a single author behind A Brief Discourse who was part of the debates it concerns.

The use of waivers and / or assumption of risk forms that are intended to minimize legal accountability of divemasters is a common practice, but the validity of such waivers will vary with the legislation.

Most courts and law enforcement personnel operated under the assumption that it did, however the Clinton administration had begun to work on legislation to make that clear, and one magistrate judge in California did rule that the language was too telephone-specific to apply to Internet surveillance.

With the growth of consumerism, consumer protection legislation recognised that common law principles, which assume equal bargaining power between the contracting parties, create hardships when that assumption is inaccurate.

Since a number of conscientious objectors were sent to work down the mines as an alternative to military service, there was sometimes an assumption that all Bevin Boys were " Conchies ", and, although the right to conscientiously object to killing was recognised in conscription legislation, as it had been in the First World War, old attitudes still prevailed amongst some members of the general public, with resentment by association towards Bevin Boys.

Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

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

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

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.

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.

The threshold mass is derived from the momentum threshold with the assumption of a mean impact velocity of Af in the U.S. work and Af in the U.S.S.R. work.

The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).

If ( remember this is an assumption ) the minimal polynomial for T decomposes Af where Af are distinct elements of F, then we shall show that the space V is the direct sum of the null spaces of Af.

Thus in the three-dice example Af, Af, and the independence assumption imply that the probability that the three dice fall ace, not-ace, ace in that order is Af.

This contradicts the preceding observations, and so, under the assumption of this paper, we must reject the possibility that **zg is a Af curve on a quadric surface.

The existence of conflict and of vigorous union demand for an increase in money wages does not contradict the assumption that the union is willing to settle for cost-of-living and productivity-share increases as distinct from a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate.

The underlying assumption, of course, is that only sight and touch enable us, in any precise and fully dependable way, to locate objects in space beyond us, the other senses being decidedly inferior, if not totally inadequate, in this regard.

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

-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.