Argument
Tacit assumption
Overview
assumption that underlies a logical argument, course of action, decision, or judgment that is not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker or judge
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Most of them only get as far as tolerance, in other words they leave what cannot be explained away, they correct it and touch it up condescendingly, on the tacit assumption that the novice will count it as justice if the past be narrated without harshness or open expressions of hatred. But only superior strength can really judge; weakness must tolerate, if it do not pretend to be strength and turn justice to a…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
States what Tacit assumption is; opens on Tacit assumption.
It may perhaps at first sight seem that we here reach a very unimportant conclusion; namely, that a certain tacit assumption is equally implied in all these conflicting political creeds—an assumption which is indeed of self-evident validity. The question, however, is not the value or novelty of the particular truth in this case arrived at. My aim has been to exhibit the more general truth, which we are apt to…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
States what Tacit assumption is; opens on Tacit assumption.
Accordingly, a large proportion of the erroneous thinking which exists in the world proceeds on a tacit assumption, that the same order must obtain among the objects in nature which obtains among our ideas of them. That if we always think of two things together, the two things must always exist together.
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Opens on Tacit assumption; names Tacit assumption.
Philosophers who discussed Tacit assumption
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophical skepticism.