The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.
I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
I like the rough impersonality of New York. . . Human relations are oiled by jokes, complaints, and confessions-all made with the assumption of never seeing the other person again.
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are not loveable as we are, we must become lovable under false pretenses, as if we were something better than we are.
The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.
The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.
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.