shared assumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsharedandassumption
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shared
adjective
uk/ʃeəd/us/ʃerd/
owned, divided, felt, or experienced by more than ...
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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 ofsharedandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thesharedassumptionof legal professionals, therapeutic professionals and divorcing parents alike is that such a decision calls for therapeutic, not legal, expertise.
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In the next section, we argue against thissharedassumption.
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The crux of the problem, of course, was thesharedassumptionthat in a relationship of marriage the male partner is dominant, the female subordinate.
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It is this very set of shared assumptions that became the target of attack by post-structuralist and post-modernist critics.
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Shared assumptions regarding the moral virtues of !
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The realm may have been divided, but its more articulate members demonstrated a range of shared assumptions as they recorded the rituals of and expectations for the new monarchy.
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Winkler (1998) expresses this 'musical' understanding as being made up of a 'huge number of shared assumptions and implied rules based on years of collective experience'.
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That means that the debate can take place within the realms of the possible and on the basis of certain shared assumptions.
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In any civilised society, we must begin with some shared assumptions.
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It is one thing for different bodies to agree shared assumptions and objectives, as we intend, but quite another to incorporate one body's plans wholesale into those of another.
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The authors suggested this tilt as a mostly unconscious process of like-minded individuals projecting their shared assumptions onto their interpretations of reality, a variation of confirmation bias.
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