implicit assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimplicitandassumption
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implicit
adjective
uk/ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/us/ɪmˈplɪs.ɪt/
suggested but not ...
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assumption
noun
uk/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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There is animplicitassumptionthat such trade as existed, which formerly made up the life-blood of the hundi/hawala system, has since declined.
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Early policies to improve the wellbeing of older people were based on animplicitassumptionthat being old was itself a source of vulnerability.
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Theimplicitassumptionis that the room boundary in the scanning plane is not obstructed by objects such as furniture.
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From the equation emerges theimplicitassumptionof the proportional hazards regression, namely the proportionality of the hazards.
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For the time being, it is animplicitassumptionin our formalism that remains to be confirmed.
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Most, for example, simply record the target problem specification and the final solution, with theimplicitassumptionthat the outcome was successful.
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In relation to the hospital, theimplicitassumptionis that this health structure has a technical vocation exclusive from social problems.
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Animplicitassumptionis that control of infectious disease in developing countries is analogous to control of infectious diseases in developed countries.
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Theimplicitassumptionin most of the philosophical literature is that the distinctive ideas of the priority view are all to do with histories.
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These results depend on theimplicitassumptionthat there are no exogenous changes in the economy, such as autonomous technical changes.
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Currently we only have animplicitassumptionthat tools must be sufficiently different to be a productive contributor to the fusion module.
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There appears to be animplicitassumptionin parts of the cognitive science community that computation is symbolically mediated.
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There is usually animplicitassumptionthat the less interesting parts of a system would be amenable to a similar, if somewhat more tedious, analysis.
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Subject expansion can only hold if expansion preserves standard types, so this will be animplicitassumptionthroughout the section.
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He extends this conclusion to phonological representations, based on animplicitassumptionthat these are the same as mental lexical representations.
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This involves animplicitassumptionthat individuals respond to purely financial incentives.
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Arguments for low error rates therefore rely on theimplicitassumptionthat alternative theories would predict higher error rates.
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The first is theimplicitassumptionthat the full extent of a party's willingness to accept policy compromises has been demonstrated in its coalition behaviour.
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There is animplicitassumptionthat procedures can be identified to replace more costly ones while maintaining the level of effectiveness.
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