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challenge and assumption
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.
Eudoxus used 27 concentric spherical solids to answer Plato's challenge: " By the assumption of what uniform and orderly motions can the apparent motions of the planets be accounted for?
With this basic assumption underlying their calculations, the valuations produced serve to reinforce gender inequalities rather than challenge women's subordination.
New Trade theorists challenge the assumption of diminishing returns to scale, and some argue that using protectionist measures to build up a huge industrial base in certain industries will then allow those sectors to dominate the world market ( via a network effect ).
* In academic discourse a problem is a challenge to an assumption, an apparent conflict that requires synthesis and reconciliation.
Recently, however, a growing number of scholars have begun to challenge this assumption.
Modern advances in game theory, such as those developed by John Nash, challenge this assumption and derive stable equilibria ( such as the Nash equilibrium ) in complicated bargaining situations.
New Trade theorists challenge the assumption of diminishing returns to scale, and some argue that using protectionist measures to build up a huge industrial base in certain industries would then allow those sectors to dominate the world market, via a network effect.
His theories challenge the conventional assumption that mental illness is biochemical, rejecting the ' chemical imbalance ' theories used by drug companies in marketing their products, contending people should be suspicious of such claims while suggesting the targets of the marketing are usually medicating themselves unnecessarily.
But some environmental historians challenge this assumption, arguing that while traditional history is human history – the story of people and their institutions, " humans cannot place themselves outside the principles of nature.
No challenge may be made to the assumption of command by any other officer under said superior, or any officer not in the theater.
The details of the composition of the first part of the novel, and the role of Sara Austen in that composition, as well as awareness of publishing practices in the 1820s in London, challenge the assumption that Vivian Grey is synonymous with the young Benjamin Disrael.
" Acting on advice given to me by the great missionary statesman, John R. Mott, I had determined to challenge every assumption that I could recognize as underlying the work of my Church in India, not to prove any of them wrong, but to find out, if I could, whether they seemed to be right or wrong as indicated by their results ".
This approach to the law of value became the common assumption of left-wing Marxists discussing the transition to socialism, until the theorists of market socialism began to challenge it and gained more intellectual influence.

challenge and beauty
: " I have lived in a very special world-a world of love and security ; beauty and serenity ; opportunity, adventure, and variety ; challenge and achievement ; and the appreciation of my peers.
These can include the artistry and beauty of views afforded by the sky and land, intangible experiences such as feeling one with a much larger and powerful natural world, the challenge of correctly forecasting and intercepting storms with the optimal vantage points, and pure thrill.
However, to enhance her exotic Indian beauty, most adaptations have her keeping her sari at least until the company completes the challenge.
Another challenge, and perhaps part of the beauty of neuroethology, is experimental design.
Her beauty had reached Kahungunu's ears, and unable to resist such a challenge he embarked on a mission to win her, in which he was successful.
Its location in one of the busiest areas in Brooklyn made it a challenge to preserve its natural beauty through 150 years of industrial and economic advancement.
Icefalls are climbed because of their beauty and the challenge they pose.
The second and third verse challenge mainstream norms of beauty: " I ain't talkin ' bout Playboy.
" The episode featured 10 beauty pageant winners competing for $ 100, 000 towards their chosen charities along with a chance to win a $ 1, 000, 000 challenge.

challenge and was
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.
But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.
Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.
to the Neo-Classicists, it was a challenge to the pre-war world.
It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.
He told some 350 persons that the United States' challenge was to help countries build their own societies their own ways, following their own paths.
When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.
Renan's head was turned away from the building, while Athena, beside him, was depicted raising her arm, which was interpreted as indicating a challenge to the church during an anti-clerical phase in French official culture.
In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
Another challenge was a serious shortage of horses and equipment.
Remarkably, it seems that a measure blocked before the assembly voted on it did not need to go back to the assembly if it survived the court challenge: the court was enough to validate it.
" The Convention, however, nowhere lists the right to succeed to the Crown as a human right ; therefore, the challenge was rejected.
The first climber to actually make bouldering his primary specialty ( in the mid 1950s ) and to advocate its acceptance as a legitimate sport not restricted to a particular area was John Gill, a mathematician and amateur gymnast who found the challenge and movement of bouldering enjoyable.
They argued that a new type of political force was needed to challenge the Conservative Party.
He took his last win in the opening race of the 1970 season and was competitive throughout the year, although mechanical failures blunted his challenge.
Skeat “… in at least three cases and probably in all, in the form of codices " and he theorized that this form of notebook was invented in Rome and then “… must have spread rapidly to the Near East …” In his discussion of one of the earliest pagan parchment codices to survive from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, Eric Turner seems to challenge Skeat ’ s notion when stating “… its mere existence is evidence that this book form had a prehistory ” and that “ early experiments with this book form may well have taken place outside of Egypt .” Early codices of parchment or papyrus appear to have been widely used as personal notebooks, for instance in recording copies of letters sent ( Cicero Fam.
Harvard's decision not to join the Yale-Rutgers-Princeton-Columbia association meant that they needed to look further afield to find football opponents so when a challenge from Canada ’ s McGill University rugby team in Montreal was issued to Harvard, they accepted.
" The challenge for early writers was that Chicago was a frontier outpost that transformed into a global metropolis in the span of two generations.

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