general assumption
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general
adjective
uk/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/us/ˈdʒen.ər.əl/
involving or relating to most or all people, things, or places, especially when these are considered as ...
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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 ofgeneralandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It contains a detailed study of questions of rhythm, accentuation and stress, with thegeneralassumptionthat only verse is fit for music.
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Together with thegeneralassumptionof monolingualism in the legal system comes a frequent lack of understanding of what it means to be bilingual.
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Thegeneralassumptionis that it cannot occur.
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Thegeneralassumptionhas been that each of them was designed as a substitute movement for a concerto.
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Our results for these two species contradict thegeneralassumptionthat seedling survival is initially enhanced in treefall gaps (references above).
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This somewhat contradicts thegeneralassumptionthat larger grains contain less protein.
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This is not a plausiblegeneralassumption, although it may sometimes be true.
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As mentioned earlier, however, thegeneralassumptionthat increasingly complex environments can only be tamed by increasingly complex strategies is doubtful.
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Ourgeneralassumptionis that the factions and parties in government agree to a simple game to implement their agenda cartel.
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Thegeneralassumptionis that linguistic categories emerge and develop as cognitive and other language skills, such as lexical skills, develop.
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This is not to propose ageneralassumption; instead, and at its most modest, it merely suggests a personal response to performance.
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Ourgeneralassumptionis that people have relatively stable and enduring values and sentiments which in turn will shape their attitudes towards transient political issues.
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The preceding analyses are based on thegeneralassumptionthat distractor words are either globally similar to or unrelated to the cue words.
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Thegeneralassumptionis that nonverbal behaviour is merely ' add-on ' information.
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This approach is consistent with ourgeneralassumptionof predicativity, and it also finesses some awkward efficiency questions.
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Thisgeneralassumptionmakes the index of refraction always less than one.
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I have no intention to bring up for discussion thegeneralassumptionof a concurrence between the life cycle of a house and the domestic cycle of a household.
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Thegeneralassumptionseems to be that much of our confusion over causal relations in the social world is due to what might be called a level-of-analysis problem.
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It has not been overlooked that facts exist here which contradictper se thegeneralassumptionthat the parabolic shape of the trajectory was discovered before 1610.
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