The correspondence with dialectical method is straightforward: rhetorical speeches, like dialectical arguments, seek to persuade others to accept certain conclusions on the basis of premises they already accept.
The basic principle asserts that reasonable persons will propose fair terms of cooperation with other reasonable persons only on condition that the terms can be justified to those others on the basis of premises that they can reasonably accept.
That is, the basis of premise (A) is made clear, and the spreading from (B) is expanded.
The analysis concerns listing what premises constitute the gauge principle, examining the status of these premises and what motivation might be given for them, determining precisely what can be obtained on the basis of these premises, and what more needs to be added in order to arrive at a (successful) physical theory.
And in the "Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas made the case for sacred doctrine on the basis of Aristotelian premises.
The Broockman-Skovron paper suggests that politicians left, right and center have been making decisions on the basis of mistaken premises about their voters.
If Israelis and Palestinians were closer to peace, if Iraqi democracy showed signs of stability -- these might justify a war fought in part on the basis of false premises.
On the basis of these premises, they developed a theory of language acquisition according to which, sensory-motor mechanisms provide a neurofunctional architecture for the acquisition of language, while retaining their original functions as well.
Medieval religious beliefs and practices figure centrally in my work: I am profoundly interested in the radical claims made for human efficacy on the basis of otherworldly premises and the paradoxical results of attempts to realize religious ideals in this world.
On the basis of these premises, we introduce the concept of math-science coherence, operationalised as the correlation between math and science scores [r(M,S ], and analyse its relationship to problem solving and the effects of confounders (i.e., country characteristics) as a step of validation.
