Note, that in the above, example premises, consecutive letters from the alphabet were used in order to explain the idea of the paradigm, in the actual task exactly random letters were used as stimuli, to make sure participants would only deduct from the given premises, and not from their knowledge of the alphabet.
For example, Gauthier premises the bargaining position not as an escape from the state of nature, but rather as a method for achieving an acceptable share of the potential cooperative surplus.
At the point of "normative weighing", which forms a later stage of the research process, normative theory renders moral judgment, while the descriptive sciences' task is a critical examination of the ethical theories brought into play and the detection of possible empirical (for example, anthropological) premises within them.
But this is how an intelligence like Gaddis's works -- finding examples, interrogating premises and extrapolating outward until a whole world-picture comes into focus.
A proposed national Genetic Privacy Act, for example, is premised on the idea that my DNA reveals more about my identity and my future health than other medical data do.
For lawyers, methodological rigor is daily practice, and they also see the expediency to apply this outside of their profession — for example the premise that people are innocent until proven otherwise.
In argument A in the example above, premise s is absolutely irrelevant.
A format is the concept for a TV show, for example, a premise for a gameshow.
For different logics, different conditions can be placed on R. For example, if premise combination is commutative, we place a symmetry condition on R like this: Rxyz if and only if Ryxz.
In the eighth grade, he skipped the confirmation ceremony at his Lutheran church, telling the pastor that some Lutheran teachings--for example, the premise that Christianity was the only religious faith that could secure him a place in heaven--were inconsistent with his own observations and interpretations of the world.
For example, the premise that was located in the most deprived Data Zone of all on the database of licensed addresses was excluded when it was identified as the gift shop of one of Glasgow's two major football team's stadium rather than a community shop.
