fundamental assumption
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fundamental
adjective
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition offundamentalandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For instance, onefundamentalassumptionof the model is that a cognitive unit is forgotten when not repeated and strengthened with repetition.
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By the same token, the fact that human decision makers deviate from rationality in certain situations does not refute thefundamentalassumptionof instrumental rationality.
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This concept is based on thefundamentalassumptionthat innovation that benefits society at large may be financed publicly.
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It holds true to thefundamentalassumptionthat candidates are motivated by re-election and that the median voter exerts real centripetal pull.
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The mostfundamentalassumptionin the theory is that there are two modes of information-processing, experiential and rational.
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Afundamentalassumptionin system design is that the past is a good indicator of the future.
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Both, moreover, shared afundamentalassumption: both perceived a gulf between the content of memory and present consciousness.
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Our approach begins with thefundamentalassumptionthat it is not possible to know in advance what the right set of principles are.
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Afundamentalassumptionmade here is that the computational processes are initiated with the selection of a desired hand-movement trajectory and velocity profile.
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Thefundamentalassumptionof this algorithm is that a document belongs to the same category as its nearest neighbors.
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Were this not afundamentalassumption, the idea that a leitmotif recurs for musical-formal reasons in defiance of text would be unthinkable.
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Thefundamentalassumptionin statistical mechanics - that an ensemble average is equivalent to a trajectory average - is known as ergodicity.
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Afundamentalassumptiondriving much of that research is that management and management-influencing empowerment and action should be at the lowest effective level.
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In all previous discussions of which we are aware, positive definiteness of the diffusion tensor has always been afundamentalassumptionof the theory.
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This is afundamentalassumptionof linguistic theory.
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This requires thefundamentalassumptionthat each infectious unit has a non-zero probability of initiating an infection.
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Silverman'sfundamentalassumptionis that the oral and glottal gestures of stops would not be cued to the listener if their realisation were strictly simultaneous.
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Hence, afundamentalassumption, without which most of the theoretical machinery of connectionist modeling becomes irrelevant or unworkable, is not satisfied.
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Using political institutions as an additional predictor, we rely on afundamentalassumption: the pressures of internationalization are filtered, mediated and refracted through nation-specific political institutions.
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Accordingly, we make the followingfundamentalassumption.
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