Proponents of conceptual analysis, by contrast, are skeptical that the explanatory premises of empirical social scientists give us any reason to prefer one concept of law to another.
Finally, the legal/non-legal demarcation in empirical social science usually reflects more general explanatory premises about the psycho-social factors that account for behavior, well beyond the realm of the legal.
At Christmas 1992, they even launched a Sega CD console game, Kris Kross: Make My Video, whose risible, self-explanatory, premise earned it a place among the 20 Worst Games Of All Time.
Several years ago now, I started Critique My Dick Pic (NSFW, and that goes for the links throughout this piece), a website with a simple, self-explanatory premise: I critique the penis pictures of anyone is who is inclined to send them to me; reviewing them on their photographic merits and awarding a bold letter grade.
III d. 38 a. 3c), this statement is pointing to a more explanatory and prior premise, discernible though never adequately articulated so as to show its relation to basic human goods.
What those versions have in common unsurprisingly is that they are all inference rules, requiring premises encompassing explanatory considerations and yielding a conclusion that makes some statement about the truth of a hypothesis.
Courtney's theory derives its explanatory power from the premise that although several factors – such as socio-economic status and access to health services – are associated with health and longevity, they cannot fully explain gender differences in health and longevity (22).
Some blamed the show's unforgivable plot lines about cons and adultery; others faulted its hard-to-define premise and hardly explanatory title.
(In Lewis 1966, the second premise is more general: the occupant of the causal role is identified with a physical state. Lewis then defends the second premise by endorsing the explanatory adequacy of physics).
One arrives at scientia of a given fact by deriving it as the conclusion of a syllogism whose premises meets certain stringent conditions that render them explanatory of that fact.
The 32 explanatory variables investigated in this study are related to manager and premises description, sources of infection control information used during the outbreak, outbreak experience and perceptions concerning a potential future equine influenza outbreak (Table 1).
