#assumption

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. ↗

— Gary Becker

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The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. ↗

— Alonzo Church

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It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#community #free #heterosexual #important #important issue

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. ↗

— Frank Knight

#anything #assumption #behave #continues #described

I think people see the social media numbers, and the assumption is made that we're running a campaign that is just social media, but I think we're running a very old-school campaign. ↗

— James Lankford

#campaign #i #i think #just #made

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. ↗

— Orville Wright

#advance #assumption #hope #little #really

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#assumption #been #cause #confirms #event

Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#attitude #win #attitude

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. ↗

— George Eliot

#materialism #life