naive assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaiveandassumption
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naive
adjective
uk/naɪˈiːv/us/naɪˈiːv/
too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience ...
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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 ofnaiveandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is also without exception a verynaiveassumption: key players are, almost by definition, good people.
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Anaiveassumptionis that crystallization will mostly force macromolecules to adopt a more compact structure.
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This shortcoming can be attributed to thenaiveassumptionthat psychopathologies arise in part from abnormalities in brain function that are spatially discrete and highly localized.
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With certain exceptions, it is also a verynaiveassumption.
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It is justifying that decision on thenaiveassumptionthat exclusion will enable more aid to be given to other areas.
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This may be a rathernaiveassumption, but to me it seems obvious: 1992 and the internal market loom large on the horizon.
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There is a widespread and rathernaiveassumptionthat as long as time keeps passing, humanity will inevitably get better and better.
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Hisnaiveassumptionthat it can all be done with a saving of £500 million in administration beggars belief.
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That may be anaiveassumption, and we need not go into it in great detail.
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That is an extraordinarilynaiveassumption.
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Even with informative equidistant needed the markers needed to be 2-fold denser than estimated from naive assumptions.
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The approach appears most valuable when critiquing naive assumptions and ugly prejudices that underlay official policies and actions.
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Much of this revisionist case is irrefutable and supplies an important corrective to naive assumptions about puritanism and liberty.
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Turing argues that these objections are often based on naive assumptions about the versatility of machines or are disguised forms of the argument from consciousness.
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