Sentence examples for as a first premise from inspiring English sources

The authors assert as a first premise, later to be justified, that one or another of these must hold.

OptFlux development has taken as a first premise to build a tool aimed at biotechnology researchers and not at computational or bioinformatics experts.

The treatise itself is mainly devoted to a laborious calculation of the various different possible forms of hypothetical syllogism involving two, three (with a first premise such as 'If it is A, then if it is B, it is C') and four terms (with a first premise such as 'If, if it is A then it is B, then, if it is C then it is D').

However they also take as a second premise (also to be justified) that if quantum mechanics were complete, then incompatible quantities (in particular position and momentum) could indeed have simultaneous, real values.

From this text, we can extract an exact formal proof, as follows: A completion or proof "through the impossible" shows that a certain conclusion follows from a pair of premises by assuming as a third premise the denial of that conclusion and giving a deduction, from it and one of the original premises, the denial (or the contrary) of the other premises.

A real party of the working class would acknowledge as a second premise the urgency of balancing bargaining power most especially between capital and labor.

A second premise became viable as time went on.

A second premise of the book seems frailer.

Yet, on the assumption that one of the pair "God exists" and "God does not exist" is true, one of the above arguments is sound: They're both valid, they each have a true second premise (the same second premise, as it turns out), and the one with a true conclusion also has a true first premise.

Would we be better off accepting violence as our new first premise?

That the movement was seen as a failure is the first premise of Starr's argument; what he proposes to analyze is the theorization of the failure.