Sentence examples for be a premise from inspiring English sources

ED: Do you want there to be a premise here or what?

"There just seems to be a premise that all these classes rest on that there's something wrong with you," Ms. Brandel said.

This may be a premise for his new campaign slogan: "Tiramisù and Tipper, too!" Mark Packer Inman, S.C., May 23 , 2007

Thus, the conclusion can be a premise in a later argument.

But whatever else this premise might be perhaps something about the lattice structure of snow and the way it reflects light it will still need to be a premise about the world.

However, at Appendix I.21 he does assert (without support) that "Reason, being cool and disengaged, is no motive to action," and perhaps this is intended to be a premise in a revised version of the famous argument that reason cannot produce motives but morals can, though what he writes here is tantalizingly different from that argument as it appears repeatedly in the Treatise.

It's a premise that, on its surface, makes sense.

It is a premise that sounds like a dismissive joke by Chelsea Handler.

It is a premise that Mr. Weller, anger notwithstanding, treats with a dose of farce.

Now there's a premise even an outsider born yesterday can understand.

It's a premise that could be tested in the future by drilling into the basin's floor.