The phrase "abstract premises" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theoretical concepts, philosophical arguments, or foundational ideas that are not concrete or specific.
Example: "In her thesis, she explored the abstract premises underlying modern ethical theories."
Alternatives: "theoretical foundations" or "conceptual assumptions".
The God beyond the ineffable is not an ether-like cloud, an unmoved Mover or any other abstract premise of philosophical reasoning but the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Directed and co-written by Pete Docter (Monsters , Inc andUp) and co-directed by Ronnie del Carmen, Inside Out starts from a boldly abstract premise: the narrative plays out within the psyche of a girl named Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias) and the film's characters are her feelings.
Dogtooth, too, despite its abstract premise, could be read as an indictment of the older generation, in which context its images of teenagers stumbling blindfolded around their own garden, anaesthetising themselves just to pass the time, and quoting American movies in complete ignorance of what they're saying, take on a certain resonance.
It's certainly an interesting and abstract premise, and with the game only lasting 25 minutes, you won't be sitting there all night like you could be on a real date.
Like all of Johns' works featuring common signs and symbols — flags, targets, numbers, letters, maps — the flag works not only challenged the premises of abstract expressionism, but also questioned the medium of painting itself.
Starting with Michael Sandel's (1982) famous criticism of Rawls, a number of critics charged that liberalism was necessarily premised on an abstract conception of individual selves as pure choosers, whose commitments, values and concerns are possessions of the self, but never constitute the self.
The cliche catchall known as the millennium and the 20th-century's birthing of abstraction are the not-so-strong premises for this small gathering of work by six abstract painters of several generations: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Thom Cooney Crawford, Lydia Dona, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed and Dorothea Rockburne.
She understood Abstract Expressionism to be based on the premise that art could, and should, be a vehicle for certain concrete but ineffable emotions.
Relieved from the conventions of scripted television by an outlandish premise, it could grapple with highly abstract topics.
Gus Van Sant's new film, the unusual and remarkable "Elephant," has a premise so simple that in the abstract it borders on the banal.
