Every worldview is built on a first premise -- the bedrock assumption upon which all else rides.
Among its many narrative parries, the book challenges a bedrock assumption of evolutionary biology, the premise that males of most species, including humans, vary far more in reproductive success than do their female counterparts.
In the secular realm, we carry out our arguments — and develop our politics, each of us an autodidact — without the benefit of a common moral language or the bedrock of shared premises, and we sometimes appear fated, therefore, to retreat to our various ideological corners for good.
"We understand and identify with the serious difficulties everyone is facing, but we can't let this misfortune be used as a premise to erode these bedrock principles".
"Tom Koch's premises, always supported on a bedrock of deliciously abstruse logic, were nothing more than 'reality carried a step further,' he said," David Pollock wrote in his 2013 book "Bob and Ray: Keener Than Most Persons".
The results support the premise that for landscapes with adequate storage in bedrock fractures, forest regrowth can increase recharge to perched aquifers, and hence dry season baseflow, relative to cropping and that dramatic reductions in overland flow and increases in dry season baseflow may be achieved by reforestation of compacted pastures.
Its challenge--to do so without ever having to address the bedrock axioms upon which it all rests--long standing assumptions and premises which underlie the existing system and support its practices.
The right to an adequate defense is the very bedrock of the American criminal justice system, which operates under a pretty simple adversarial premise: A prosecutor argues why a defendant should be punished by the state for an alleged crime while a defense attorney attempts to exonerate their client, or at least provide enough reasonable doubt to avoid a guilty verdict.
