In the project they hypothesize that such understanding can only be attained by embodied agents and requires the simultaneous consideration of perception and action resting on three foundational assumptions:

Both Buchanan and Stefan Voigt argue the foundational assumption of normative constitutional economics is that no single individual's goals or values can supersede the value of another's.

It can also be shown to be a useful foundational assumption in frequentist statistics and to link the two paradigms.

But these foundational assumptions have no inherent certainty; we are certain of them by reason of the place that they occupy in the whole of our experience.

The principles represent the foundational assumptions for an evolutionary educational psychology.

Marglin's current research focuses on the foundational assumptions of economics, concentrating on whether they represent universal human values or merely reflect western culture and history.

Philosophical posthumanism: a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions of Renaissance humanism and its legacy.

He then proceeded to trash the foundational assumptions of everyone who had just spoken.

The paradox conflates lies with errors or falsity and therefore its foundational assumption is incorrect.

Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical direction which is critical of the foundational assumptions and universalizing tendency of Western philosophy.