Assumption in sentence

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This is a feasible goal, basically because, contrary to widespread assumption, I would argue that we know how to do this.

Operating on the assumption you're human, you've certainly heard of sex.

So if we start with the assumption that everybody comes to work to do an amazing job, you'd be surprised what you get.

Now, based on the assumption that we've got smart adults here, the most important thing we can teach them is how our business works.

What I've learned is that we're working under the assumption that those Google results are true.

So this movement, if it's to be durable and global, will have to cross borders, and you will have to see other citizens in democracies, not simply resting on the assumption that their government would do something in the face of genocide, but actually making it such.

I like the fact that the viewer can never make the assumption about what's real and what's fake.

This is a really, really bad assumption.

And I'd like to put this horrible assumption to the test and do an experiment.

Where Stella went wrong was her assumption that she and Terra had equal claim to being inertial observers.

So, neoliberal economic assumption number one is that the market is an efficient equilibrium system, which basically means that if one thing in the economy, like wages, goes up, another thing in the economy, like jobs, must go down.

The second assumption is that the price of something is always equal to its value, which basically means that if you earn 50,000 dollars a year and I earn 50 million dollars a year, that's because I produce a thousand times as much value as you.

Now, it will not surprise you to learn that this is a very comforting assumption if you're a CEO paying yourself 50 million dollars a year but paying your workers poverty wages.

The third assumption, and by far the most pernicious, is a behavioral model that describes human beings as something called "homo economicus," which basically means that we are all perfectly selfish, perfectly rational and relentlessly self-maximizing.

For example, corporations and consumers may borrow more money with the assumption that economic growth will help them handle the added burden.

The assumption there is that we're all constantly calculating the costs and benefits of every one of our actions and optimizing that to make the perfectly right, rational decision.

So a Type-1 vulnerability, again, this massive, destructive power, it's a fairly weak assumption to think that in a population of millions of people there would be some that would choose to use it destructively.

This is a contradiction, and it tells us our initial assumption was wrong.

What I'm going to do is look at five categories of experiments, each of which challenges an old assumption of philanthropy.

Clay Shirky, that great chronicler of everything networked, has captured the assumption that this challenges in such a beautiful way.

And this challenges yet another assumption, which is that organized philanthropy is only for the very wealthy.

It's that he challenged another assumption, that every giver should have his or her own fund or foundation.

This tackles yet another assumption, that the giver and the organization is at the center, as opposed to putting the problem at the center.

And this, of course, tackles the biggest assumption of all, that business is business, and philanthropy is the vehicle of people who want to create change in the world.

To put it very simply, the assumption so far has been that if you give people enough connectivity, if you give them enough devices, democracy will inevitably follow.

And though that company has just started, our assumption is that there too we'll see the impact on millions.

So that's what statisticians would call an assumption of independence.

And none of this was stated to the court as an assumption or presented to the jury that way.

There's always one continent left out, the assumption being that sub-Saharan Africa had no religious beliefs.

We've based the design of our settlements, our business models, our transport plans, even the idea of economic growth, some would argue, on the assumption that we will have this in perpetuity.

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