This is what I call the unexamined assumption problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
They are the ghosts of old prejudices imported years ago from England, or taken up unexamined from the English community abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Appearances Being Notes of Travel] Reference
The question involved the word "unexamined" - she wasn't sure what that meant. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Why should this area of life remain unexamined?. From Wordnik.com. [humani nihil a me alienum puto « Unknowing] Reference
"non-ground" (Ungrund) of freedom — remain unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction] Reference
How could you let that question remain unexamined?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 26, 2001] Reference
The pile of unexamined results grew until May, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Elaine Schattner: Skipped Heart Tests at Harlem Hospital Flag a Stressed Medical System] Reference
Count on future biographers to leave no dark corner unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady And The Legend] Reference
First, it stands for "the unexamined life," as Plato called it. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
"The unexamined life," he says, "is not liveable for a human being.". From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
A faith that goes unexamined, unquestioned, is in fact no faith at all. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
For too long the basic functioning of the government has gone unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks On Streamlining The Government] Reference
The museum has unexamined specimens dating at least as far back as the 1920s. From Wordnik.com. [Living His Dinosaur Dream] Reference
We rode back from the Customs in triumph, all our luggage intact and unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Socrates said, and it still holds, that the unexamined life is not worth living. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Principles at once, made no attempt internally to defend my own "unexamined life.". From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
They can really alter your behavior, if you will, because they have been unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference
Surely the outrage last week was genuine, but it grows out of some unexamined premises. From Wordnik.com. [Old Too Soon, Wise Too Late?] Reference
But like everyone else, we hold unexamined premises clanking behind us like Marley's chain. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference
Both "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge" capture the sadness and boredom of the unexamined life. From Wordnik.com. [The Unexamined Life Examined In 'Mrs. Bridge'] Reference
He is always listening and enquiring after men, and suffers not a cloak to pass by him unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
At the core of Rosanne's work as an artist, I venture, is her simple refusal to leave her life unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Ethan Russell: Music, Words & Pictures: Rosanne Cash (Part 1)] Reference
And like any system that went on for years unexamined, there were some problems with it and it needed to be fixed. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To Florida Democratic Convention] Reference
The state government's money has come up short, and a number of potentially intentional fires are left unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Middle-Class Faces Homelessness After Job Loss] Reference
The federal government had many of its departments cut, but the way it operated continued to be largely unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Remarks To The Cooper Union Community] Reference
And I must confess I too have joined in this exercise on that old theory that an unexamined year isn't worth living. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2001] Reference
But as I learned about tolerance and discrimination in school, I wondered why stereotypes of our lifestyle went unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Who's A Hillbilly?] Reference
DOBBS: One of the all but unexamined consequences of illegal immigration is the free flow of diseases across borders as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2006] Reference
Confucius studied the ancient customs of his people, which had hitherto been taken for granted and had remained unexamined. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha]
That party line also means that destructive behavior is and will remain unquestioned, unexamined, uncorrected, and unpunished. From Wordnik.com. [Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: The Definition of Compromised] Reference
We found just kind of on happenstance that there were boxes and boxes of visa applications that had been unexamined by the FBI. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2007] Reference
SOURCES: MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL, STANDARD & POOR'S The story of how my pet unexamined premise finally bit the dust. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Investing: A New Slant] Reference
It is a big-and thus far unexamined-step for the state to try to do the same thing by tinkering directly with citizens 'psyches. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, I'm Terrific!] Reference
And I think we don't really have all the information in front of us unless we look at some of these uncounted or unexamined ballots. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: What Are the Prospects for Bipartisanship During a Bush Administration? - December 14, 2000] Reference
Snyder writes that "the association of personal disarmament with civilized behavior is one of the great unexamined beliefs of our time.". From Wordnik.com. [Are We 'A Nation Of Cowards'?] Reference
When being tried for his life, Socrates offered up a defense of philosophy by declaring that, "the unexamined life is not worth living.". From Wordnik.com. [The Case for a Useless Degree] Reference
SAUDI ARABIA -- The U.S. - Saudi relationship is like a dysfunctional marriage, full of buried anger and uncomfortable, unexamined truths. From Wordnik.com. [Political Lives: Plenty Of Challenges Await Bush] Reference
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