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.

The continuity assumption becomes less valid as a gas becomes more rarefied.

For liquids, whether the incompressible assumption is valid depends on the fluid properties ( specifically the critical pressure and temperature of the fluid ) and the flow conditions ( how close to the critical pressure the actual flow pressure becomes ).

If the wavepacket has a relatively large frequency spread, or if the dispersion has sharp variations ( such as due to a resonance ), or if the packet travels over very long distances, this assumption is not valid.

However, this conclusion is based on the assumption that current evolutionary theory and intelligent design are the only two valid models to explain life, a false dilemma.

The proof relies on the assumption that mass is constant ; this is valid only in non-relativistic systems in which no mass is being ejected.

This law is strictly valid only under the assumption that intermolecular forces between unlike molecules are equal to those between similar molecules: the conditions of an ideal solution.

So far as is known, this assumption is valid for classical ( non-quantum ) computers ; no classical algorithm is known that can factor in polynomial time.

Fortunately, there are often large regions of a flow where the assumption of irrotationality is valid, which is why potential flow is used for various applications.

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.

The first assumption has a very low chance of being valid in all places.

The second assumption is often valid if the extreme events are observed under similar climate conditions.

For example, if the extreme events on record all come from late summer thunder storms ( as is the case in the southwest U. S .), or from snow pack melting ( as is the case in north-central U. S .), then this assumption should be valid.

If, however, there are some extreme events taken from thunder storms, others from snow pack melting, and others from hurricanes, then this assumption is most likely not valid.

The assumption of equal variance is valid when the errors all belong to the same distribution.

This assumption is, unfortunately, not valid.

This assumption is valid for certain polymeric systems, where the positive and negative interactions between the monomer effectively cancel out.

Conventional assumptions, without evidence, may be used if the theory is only intended to apply when the assumption is valid ( or approximately valid ).

The theory makes accurate predictions when the assumption is valid, and does not make accurate predictions when the assumption is not valid.

This assumption is largely valid for either continuous or batch manufacturing processes.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

The first men were, in this case, a family of gigantic, sensitive mandragores, animated by the sun, who rooted themselves up from the earth ; this assumption not only does not exclude, but, on the contrary, positively supposes, creative will and the providential co-operation of a first cause, which we have reason to call God.

Because of the assumption that only one worker per family would be permitted to work under the proposed program, this total of 5. 15 million was further reduced by 1. 6 million — the estimated number of workers who were members of families which included two or more employable persons.

This report is based on the assumption that Kamprad owns the entire company, an approach that both IKEA and the Kamprad family reject.

The difference between cladistics and more traditional forms of statistical analysis is that, rather than simply arranging the manuscripts into rough groupings according to their overall similarity, cladistics assumes that they are part of a branching family tree and uses that assumption to derive relationships between them.

Turned down by South Africa for the post of Governor General ( the country was holding out for a cabinet minister or member of the royal family ) and snubbed by Winston Churchill on his assumption of the post of Under-Secretary for the Colonies — on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he " expected to be treated like a gentleman "— a thwarted Wood voted for the downfall of Lloyd George's government and became President of the Board of Education under Andrew Bonar Law in 1922.

The languages in the OWL family use the open world assumption.

A 1996 study of the mitochondrial DNA of the potoos supported the monophyly of the family although it did not support the previous assumption that it was closely related to the oilbirds.

First, Meadow's calculation was based on the assumption that two SIDS deaths in the same family are independent of each other.

The confusion can be ascribed to the name's uniqueness, and to the misguided assumption that cu is the same as the extremely common suffix for Romanian family names.

This could, however, make sense on the assumption that Windibank was not only interested in Miss Sutherland's money but also in her person ; that the bogus engagement covered an illicit and effectively incestous which might have been mutual, even if not ; that Miss Sutherland on at least some level knew all along who ' Hosmer Angel ' truly was ; and that Holmes was acting in her best interest in not bringing all this out in the open and avoiding a traumatic and shattering breakup of her family in the glare of sensational publicity.

In cases where the distribution of the random variable X is known to be within a certain family of distributions, other estimates may be derived on the basis of that assumption.

The Mamiya family applies gentle pressure on Noriko to accept the match proposed by Satake, primarily through their acceptance of the cultural assumption that it is time for her to marry, and that the match proposed is a good one for a woman of her age.

The second assumption, that individuals in the order Ostariophysan associate with close family members, does not appear to be supported by empirical evidence.

Under the assumption that Del has a wife and family of his own ( he frequently mentions his wife Marie and puts a framed picture of her on his various motel nightstands ), the two men part ways.

The assumption was that land, having been held by a family for generations, should stay with the same family.

According to a highly probable assumption, the Boethusians were associated with the members of the high-priestly family of Boethus.

While the Q-Q plot can be used for comparison to any distribution family ( not only the normal ), the normal Q-Q plot is a relatively standard exploratory data analysis procedure because the assumption of normality is often a starting point for analysis.

In spite of his near relationship to the Protectors family, he was one of the most violent opponents of the assumption by Cromwell of the royal title, and after the Protector's death, instead of supporting the interests and government of his nephew Richard Cromwell, he was, with Charles Fleetwood, the chief instigator and organizer of the hostility of the army towards his administration, and forced Richard Cromwell by threats and menaces to dissolve his Third Protectorate Parliament in April 1659.

The episode ends with Homer, still under the assumption that it is April Fools ' Day, trying to fool the family by saying he is taking them to Hawaii.

Under the assumption of t-distributed residuals, the distribution is a location-scale family.