Whereas the propositions that are the objects of scientia, or knowledge, compel belief by their self-evidence or their demonstrability from self-evident premises, the propositions accepted by faith do not thus compel assent but require a voluntary act of trusting acceptance.
Most empiricists, though admitting that the senses fail to yield the certainty requisite for knowledge, hold nonetheless that it is only through observation and experimentation that justified beliefs about the world can be gained in other words, a priori reasoning from self-evident premises cannot reveal how the world is.
There was a generally accepted metatheory, namely that of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, according to which scientific demonstrations were syllogistic proofs, based on necessary and self-evident premises.
According to the Aristotelian conception, scientific knowledge scientia is certain knowledge of necessary truths, which can in principle be expressed in syllogistic form, the conclusion following from self-evident premises.
He builds several arguments on apparently self-evident premises, shoddy sourcing, emotional plugs and humor.
The most obvious instance has been New Line Cinema's coming film "Snakes on a Plane," which was the subject of endless Internet interest, mostly spoofing the title and its self-evident premise.
However, eight months after his overthrow it is evident that all three premises on which the coup was predicated were false.
It is evident that if the premises of the trials are incomplete, wrong, or too vague, the results of the trial will be negative.
It is quite evident that when the premises are wrong or too vague the unavoidable consequences will be a negative outcome.
This is a sweetly, if at times exhaustingly overinflated work, which is evident from the tortured premise.
Its cheesy pop-culture self-consciousness -- most evident in the moderately clever premise of assembling an all-star team of 19th-century literary monsters -- has no room for real fright, or for the pathos and longing that lurk beneath the surface dread in the best horror movies.
