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The process of changing the assump-tions of literary studies began in the late 1950s under the name "structuralism" — a technique by which culture was analyzed as a collection of codes and rituals denoting tribal boundaries that protect against transgression by a threatening "other."

The Decline and Fall of Literature Delbanco, Andrew 1999

Also subject to question in the Keys model has been the assump - tion that resources freed by reducing Government's share in the economy would be converted into fixed investment by the private sector.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

The lack of discounts -- coupled with the questionable assump - tion that firms cannot shift any costs to workers earning less than $25,000 per year --- lead directly to the massively overstated claims of job loss.

Reich Tyson Economic Effects Of Health Care Reform ITY National Archives 1993

Today the word “Renaissance” (rebirth) is generally applied to a series of cultural changes which began in Italy in the fourteenth century and spread to the rest of Europe in the late fifteenth century, coloring and perhaps conditioning many fundamental assump - tions about art, scholarship, and morality until at least the eighteenth century.

IDEA OF RENAISSANCE DENYS HAY 1968

One of its basic assump - tions is that linguistic expressions — sentences — have not only a surface structure, but also an underlying deep structure which is not immediately available for inspection.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The least vulnerable of these assump - tions is that every commodity is cardinally measurable, which in common terms means that every instance of

Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968

If the deceleration could be measured accurately, we could decide among the various models, but until we have reliable observational evidence on this point, we must proceed by making some assump - tion about either λ or k.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

Such an evaluation, without further qualification, is mislead - ing, since it is generally based upon some tacit assump - tion of what constitutes deity.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

Owing to these difficulties, inherent in the assump - tion that our present universe evolved from an Einstein static universe of finite radius, Lemaître introduced the assumption that we live in an expanding universe of type I, which began its expansion from a highly con - densed state.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

Einstein made one other assump - tion — that the universe is static; that is, that the density of matter does not change with time and that there are no large scale motions in the universe.

COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968