faulty assumption

collocation in English

meaningsoffaultyandassumption

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faulty
adjective
uk
/ˈfɒl.ti/us
/ˈfɑːl.t̬i/
A faulty machine or device is not perfectly made or does 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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(Definition offaultyandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffaulty assumption

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It rests on thefaultyassumptionthat every unreasonable act is one that violates a requirement of reason.
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Obviously, this interpretation rests on thefaultyassumptionthat the presence of children's antisocial behavior necessarily implies a history of exposure to marital distress.
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All subsequent reasoning processes under anyfaultyassumptionmay be doomed to fail.
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The secondfaultyassumptionis not just that suitable methods exist for making national assessments but that their results should be applied in the way he proposes.
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Easy credit combined with thefaultyassumptionthat home values would continue to rise led to excesses and bad decisions.
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This model became very high risk as it was based on thefaultyassumptionthat housing values would increase.
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As he discarded the distracting rubble, he would eventually reach the "rock or the clay," or an immutable intellectual foundation that was free of faulty assumptions.
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Stress inversion methods: are they based on faulty assumptions?
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The clause, however, is based on two faulty assumptions.
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Most of these objections appear to me to be based upon faulty assumptions or ignorance of present local conditions.
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It aims to help adolescent boys learn to navigate real-world conflicts, and to overcome faulty assumptions brought about by their environment that violence can resolve their problems.
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Permissiveness, the metaphor of mid-wifery (or maieutics), guidance, a dependence on things, changing minds, all contain either problems or faulty assumptions about what is going on.
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