TUTORIAL A04: Identifying Hidden Assumptions ... So how should we go about identifying hidden assumptions? There are two main steps involved. First, determine whether the argument is valid or not. If the argument is valid, the conclusion does indeed follow from the premises, and so the premises have shown explicitly...
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Magicians deliberately make use of people's assumptions to make their tricks impressive. In one such trick a magician asks to see someone's watch, holds it up by the strap, and announces "it now says the correct time, 8:10 PM", and then hands it back to the owner.
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The "trick" relates to hidden assumptions in your frame of reference. Many of us think our perceptions are the correct way – if not the only way – of viewing the world. As long as our friends share similar perceptions, our frame of reference is reinforced.
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This study of the principles of communication that concern hidden assumptions is known as PRAGMATICS. Assumptions help speakers and authors of text leave certain things they want to convey unsaid, while feeling sure that the hearer will be `sensible' enough to infer them anyway.
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At issue is whether undergraduate students are encouraged to analyze and challenge fundamental underlying premises, assumptions and beliefs of their discipline. ... The Problem of Unexamined Premises and Assumptions...
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The mechanism used to achieve this is that of hidden hypotheses. A hypothesis is hidden when it is displayed enclosed in square brackets. At the moment the only place where such hypotheses are added is in a subgoal of the set  elim rule.
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The answer turns on the meaning of paternity and shows how the definition and assumptions about paternity made it possible for Abraham to think that the child was his to sacrifice. The meanings are integral to ... By illuminating the assumptions built into the Abraham myth, we can better go about the task of reconstruction.
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Every economic model is built on the foundations of a whole raft of assumptions, value judgements and agendas: usually unstated, unexplored, unmentionable, unconscious or totally unknown to the economists involved.
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--Maria Arrigo, Psychology Graduate Student, Claremont Graduate School These authors have an uncanny ability of identifying, as they would say, 'hidden' issues and assumptions that permeate the behavioral sciences. ... Subtitle: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences...
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They hide mountains of assumptions behind them, and blind the speaker to the realities of the situation. Even worse, the speaker is implicitly agreeing to be blindfolded, making it even more difficult for them to see the assumptions their words are masking. ... Revealing hidden assumptions in estimation Jamis 19 Nov 2005...
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