The phrase "a correct premise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the validity or accuracy of a foundational idea or statement in an argument or theory.
Example: "In order to build a strong argument, it is essential to start with a correct premise that can be supported by evidence."
Alternatives: "an accurate assumption" or "a valid basis".
That argument starts with the correct premise that a stalled economy needs all the juice it can get, hence the need for the roughly $800 billion recovery package to spur consumption and create jobs, taking shape in Congress and championed by Mr. Obama.
Even an unsuccessful filibuster based on the correct premise that the country cannot afford a Supreme Court that shifts markedly to the right on privacy rights, expansion of unchecked executive power, and protection of the environment can only improve the party's reputation with the public.
Something said often enough does not make it so; our study reminds us that hypotheses should be tested and evaluated within their specific context if we are to avoid the risk of developing our science on widely accepted, but not always correct premises.
Translating this demand into the Fregean terminology, it would mean that in the course of a correct inference the possession of the truth value The True should be preserved from the premises to the conclusion(s).
Trump made what may have been meant to be a self-deprecating joke about his "beautifully formed hands" — he extended them to the audience, wiggling his fingers — although he only managed to suggest that they were not as powerful as God's hands, "and nobody can compete with God — is that correct?" (The premise had to do with Trump Tower and St. Patrick's Cathedral both being on Fifth Avenue).
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Chanan Chever's "Constructing the Hebrew Canon," which has earned the author a post at Hebrew University, is heavily influenced by familiar, politically correct multicultural premises of "marginality" and the need to incorporate formerly excluded narratives of the dispossessed -- who, in this case, turn out to be the Palestinians.
