Sentence examples for first and second premises from inspiring English sources

(The names are mnemonics: e.g. each vowel, or the first three in cases where the name has more than three, indicates in order whether the first and second premises and the conclusion were sentences of type a, e, i or o).

Taken together, the second and third premises show that broad content cannot fulfill this role.

For example, we might try reading the second and third premises uniformly, either on the model of (2′) or on the model of (3′).

We add that common and well-understood first and second order (but cyclic, our premise 2) phase transitions of physical chemistry (gas/vapor – liquid – solid; sol gel transitions, etc. ) are a simpler and better understood mechanism of creating order than 'dissipating' structures.

Here are the third and fourth problems for Premise 2. 3. Infinitesimal probability for God's existence.

In virtue of condition (F), the argument with premises K′ and conclusion X′ must be an argument where it is not the case that the premises are true and the conclusion false; and that's in fact the case: the first premise is false, and the second premise and the conclusion are true.

No students on the third, fourth and fifth years were at the premises of the SGM on the days when the questionnaire was distributed (they were either preparing for exams or staying outside Dili).

(These authors accept the first premise of both versions of the argument and the second premise of the first version as well, but they deny the second premise of the second version and insist that (2a) does not imply (2b)).

Then the second premises, B2 and C2, are both true on the modal entailment account.

And finally a farce version, drawing on the ridiculously complex premise that Johnson's character hears only the first, fourth and sixth words of every sentence.

These were: damage to premises, followed by utilities in the second survey and levee protection in the second and third surveys.