Collocations withassumption
These are words often used in combination withassumption.
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actuarial assumption
Previous researchers in the area of pensions have examined the role of actuarial assumptions in the management of accounting numbers.
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a priori assumption
That this approach will be better than the conventional system of using a dispatching rule constantly is an a priori assumption, for two reasons.
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arrogant assumption
Bhagwati's suggestion involves the somewhat arrogant assumption that home country standards are always 'better', whatever exactly that means.
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automatic assumption
I will address the often automatic assumption, that determinism means necessarily a lack of freedom and, most importantly, for the law, the absence of responsibility.
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basic assumption
Its basic assumption is that one can treat the aggregate data as the outcome of the decisions of a single "representative" consumer.
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certain assumption
However, any claim to explain social change is dependent upon accepting certain assumption that many would question.
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common assumption
A common assumption is that they are not.
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conservative assumption
Statically, the conservative assumption is made that enough applications are performed for a reference cell to be produced.
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cultural assumption
Tracing the sources of that pervasive cultural assumption is extremely complex, but this essay will attempt to develop some lines of inquiry.
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default assumption
Now we can (possibly) exercise a default assumption: merge high or merge low without engaging language-specific grammatical assumptions.
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distributional assumption
Furthermore, the general behavior of the heuristics does not appear to be much affected by the distributional assumption.
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dubious assumption
It can only be regarded as non-contrastive under the dubious assumption that there is an underlying distinction between simple and geminate consonants, a distinction that is always neutralised.
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epistemological assumptions
Section 2 outlines the epistemological assumptions and deficiencies of the "uncertainty reduction" argument.
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erroneous assumption
This may be an erroneous assumption when the paucity of research in this area is considered.
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facile assumption
Therefore, the facile assumption, that aircraft will get so much quieter within the next decade or two that the noise will not matter, is false.
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fallacious assumption
It is also based on a somewhat fallacious assumption.
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false assumption
Who would want to justify a false assumption?
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faulty assumption
It rests on the faulty assumption that every unreasonable act is one that violates a requirement of reason.
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flawed assumption
Since meaningful disagreement about law indisputably occurs, it follows, on this flawed assumption, that legal practitioners follow the same criteria for deciding when a claim about the law is sound.
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following assumption
The following assumption specifies a model of this form.
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fundamental assumption
For instance, one fundamental assumption of the model is that a cognitive unit is forgotten when not repeated and strengthened with repetition.
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general assumption
It contains a detailed study of questions of rhythm, accentuation and stress, with the general assumption that only verse is fit for music.
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generous assumption
For purpose of argument, suppose further that the model neurons accurately represent genuine neurons (a generous assumption).
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heroic assumption
If one is willing to make a somewhat heroic assumption that the distribution of policy preferences among parties is the same, one can quantify the difference between the two systems.
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hidden assumption
There is a hidden assumption of excluded middle, or mutual exclusion as it is more usually called for concurrent processes.
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hypothetical assumption
I do not accept his version of the past, but suppose for the sake of argument that we accept that as a hypothetical assumption.
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implicit assumption
There is an implicit assumption that such trade as existed, which formerly made up the life-blood of the hundi/hawala system, has since declined.
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incorrect assumption
This is usually an incorrect assumption.
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initial assumption
Statistical power, therefore, failed to live up to our initial assumption.
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key assumption
Because the simulation is so simple, it is easy to spot the key assumption behind all of these results.
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logical assumption
We agree with their logical assumption that reports with more dream features will require more words to describe them.
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methodological assumption
Given the lack of empirical motivation, the homogeneity hypothesis reduces at best to a methodological assumption.
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mistaken assumption
There seems to be a mistaken assumption in some of the commentaries that all motor responses are totally controlled by the dorsal system.
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naive assumption
There is also without exception a very naive assumption: key players are, almost by definition, good people.
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optimistic assumption
Underlying the contrast was the optimistic assumption that the exchange of opinion would lead inexorably toward rationality and tolerance rather than merely confirm prejudice.
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pessimistic assumption
Even on the most pessimistic assumption these estimates are very much out of line with the situation as we see it to-day.
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prevailing assumption
They dismiss the prevailing assumption that feedback is beneficial and dismantle the evidence that supports that assumption.
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realistic assumption
This result is not dependent on the fact that the agent's initial dispositions are incomplete (although incompleteness would seem to be a realistic assumption here).
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reasonable assumption
This is a reasonable assumption because individual trees serving as parents are usually selected randomly from natural populations.
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restrictive assumption
Global constant returns to scale, a highly restrictive assumption, is imposed without this convexity constraint.
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safe assumption
But this is not a safe assumption.
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shared assumption
The shared assumption of legal professionals, therapeutic professionals and divorcing parents alike is that such a decision calls for therapeutic, not legal, expertise.
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simplifying assumption
We also use the simplifying assumption that the ankle angle is fixed to 90 during the step in which it does not encounter ground contact.
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simplistic assumption
This approach implicitly argues against reductionism, although, apparently, its rather simplistic assumption gives too many degrees of freedom.
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standard assumption
However, positing two base orders is not a standard assumption in derivational frameworks.
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tacit assumption
Finally, we note that the tacit assumption about functional knowledge in the neuropsychological literature is that it concerns information about the use of specific objects.
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theoretical assumption
As with many other so-called empirical arguments we need a further (hitherto not introduced) theoretical assumption, namely that traces block cliticization.
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underlying assumption
An important underlying assumption of the zero-sum game model is that all non-systematic (diversifiable) risks have been diversified.
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unfounded assumption
This is an unfounded assumption.
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unrealistic assumption
However, this result is affected by the unrealistic assumption of complete screening coverage.
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unreasonable assumption
This is not an unreasonable assumption given the extent of the labor traded in the sampled villages.
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unstated assumption
But there is a large unstated assumption implied in the very framing of this consciousness question.
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unwarranted assumption
This unwarranted assumption about the missing data may result in either underestimating or overestimating the treatment effects.
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widespread assumption
For example, there is a widespread assumption that an activity can be undertaken professionally only if it is (usually, well) financially rewarded.
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working assumption
The working assumption is that the review will somehow unmask the truth and shed direct light on a tangible policy decision.
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