premise: This is demonstrated in a variety of a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it ; an awareness of what books are for ; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms ; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM , with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE .
hypothesis: This is demonstrated in a variety of a shared illiteracy and the assumptions and biases that go with it ; an awareness of what books are for ; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms ; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM , with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE .