unexamined

This is what I call the unexamined assumption problem.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

They would remain unexamined and essentialized, and I would be avoiding the crucial question of why the government thought it necessary to change meanings, to create versions, to produce language, etc.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

They are the ghosts of old prejudices imported years ago from England, or taken up unexamined from the English community abroad.

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

The question involved the word "unexamined" - she wasn't sure what that meant.

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The question involved the word "unexamined" - she wasn't sure what that meant.

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"non-ground" (Ungrund) of freedom — remain unexamined.

The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008

So there is that kind of unexamined, almost childlike belief that all problems can be fixed with enough investigation and investment of dollars and technology.

Beyond “Death Panels”: The Right Way To Die 2009

And the threat then recognized would require too much effort, and what's more, ironically, require those "Christians" of Arie Oostlander's same ilk to "change" their assumptions about all kinds of things, and especially about the supposed benefits of every kind of unexamined "diversity" and "multiculturalism."

Israelated - English Israel blogs 2008

As Horowitz puts it, “In numerous unexamined ways, the budget studies” undertaken by progressives “attacked immigrant and working-class culture, hoping to replace it with the bourgeois emphasis on self-help and personal discipline.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The vague antipathy to American sovereignty and the gauzy support for an unexamined ‘open borders’ concept degrades real immigrants in real ways.

Matthew Yglesias » Climate Migration 2010