Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.
We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.
Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.
We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
For me, it's hard to enter any situation with people where we're considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That's a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.
Sometimes I make certain assumptions but find they're not immediately obvious to my players.
Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.
The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.
