tacit assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftacitandassumption
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tacit
adjective
uk/ˈtæs.ɪt/us/ˈtæs.ɪt/
understood without being ...
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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 oftacitandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Finally, we note that thetacitassumptionabout functional knowledge in the neuropsychological literature is that it concerns information about the use of specific objects.
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Atacitassumptionis frequently made that the droplet is spherical.
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Thetacitassumptionappears to be that if you are a fan you will want these, regardless of whether you can really afford them.
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This knowledge enabled some of the parents to challenge their previouslytacitassumptionthat children who did not conform to society's norms were deliberately naughty.
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Thetacitassumptionis that multilateral liberalization increases competition and hence curtails the scope for market power.
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The fundamental determinacy of linguistically encoded meaning has remained as atacitassumptionunderlying much work in the study of interlingual interpreting and interpreter behaviour.
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Although we distinguish between two sorts of arguments (the causal arguments and the constitutive ones), we point out that they share atacitassumption.
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Additional analyses were conducted to assess the potential influence of thistacitassumptionon the main results of this study.
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The reason for thistacitassumptionis the usual human weakness : we have an unfortunate habit of trying to impose our current human perspectives on the physical universe.
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There is atacitassumptionthat employment models and indeed the related psychosocial factors have a universal applicability, but this may be far from the truth.
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There has been atacitassumptionthroughout our debate so far that we shall never discover anything wrong.
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That was thetacitassumptionunderlying the programme of this party for two years.
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There appears to be everywhere atacitassumptionthat this issue could be divorced from all others and treated as something completely apart.
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Saying it was only putting off the evil day was atacitassumptionthat he had got to do his two years' service.
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This assumption, of course, rests on thetacitassumptionthat any landlord is, in principle, able to let his accommodation to any prospective tenant.
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His requests for manpower are always based on the unconscious assumption, thetacitassumption, that his competitor is not going to get his own demands satisfied.
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Sub-suction (3) seems to me to involve thetacitassumptionthat the figure stated the claim is not a genuine figure but figure put forward for fighting purposes.
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There is atacitassumption, which underlies some of the debate this afternoon, that every school can provide an equally good education for every child—a kind of homogenised education system.
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