Framework

A system of rules, ideas, or principles which is used to plan, decide, or provide the background or context for understanding something;

also, an assumption or set of assumptions which support an interpretation or concept and function as a guide to thinking about that concept.

For example, a framework of beliefs: an integrated and mutually-dependent and ostensibly compatible network of beliefs held by actors, or an explanatory, policy or theoretical framework.

(see also: context, background information, topical incompleteness, suppressed evidence, background knowledge)

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