That ecology was balanced became an unexamined and unscientific assumption.

Behind the seemingly concrete principles, practices and instruments of any laboratory, there are certain philosophical assumptions, often unexamined.

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions.

In the case of nutritionism, the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding food is indeed the nutrient.

This brings us to another unexamined assumption: that the whole point of eating is to maintain and promote bodily health.

One notable essay, on Sophocles, is largely taken up with the whole question of "the hidden," the gap between a writer's avowed intentions and unexamined assumptions.

If I managed to shake him loose from some prejudice, preconception, or unexamined assumption, that was all I intended to do.

The view also takes in some of the era's characteristic excesses and oddities, as well as its pieties and unexamined assumptions.

She identified a set of unexamined assumptions that had governed many Jefferson scholars' investigations.

It is a work of metafiction designed to trouble the unexamined assumptions of the memoir.