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The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

The more elaborate your narrative, the more the spectator shuts up and listens obediently. And if the filmmaker keeps quiet, the spectator will himself project his own assumptions and sentiments onto the screen.

The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h!

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

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.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.

The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could have easily been stopped by Europe. What was lacking was any will to do so. It's an irony of the achievement of Europe that it had lived for 40 years under the assumption of the unimaginability of internal wars, so it didn't know what to do with it when it was confronted with one close up.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.

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Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full exercise of the largest constitutional authorities.

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates.  I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have no qualms in asserting as fact: the dream is an experiential universal for humanity.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

We are living in a time when the very integrity of the Constitution is being threatened daily, from federal bailouts to federal assumption of control over private business.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.