Even granting the premise that national interest comes first, this begs the question of what precisely national interest or, indeed, patriotism entails.
The Democrats grant Trump this premise, too.
Without granting that premise, I call your attention to your own article, "Diabetics in the Workplace Confront a Tangle of Law" (Dec.
What was most striking about the CBS News recording was how quickly the woman identified as Pierson granted the premise that this was something Trump had actually said.
Each of the program's two new pieces seemed to take for granted the premise that entertaining dance need not be a guilty pleasure.
Granted, the premise is both maudlin and absurd, but there are plenty of actresses -- Ashley Judd and Michelle Pfeiffer immediately come to mind -- who might have made both the humor and the sentiment at least passably credible.
Still, granted the premise, if you can't picture it or imagine it, you can't believe in it — Should we conclude, therefore, that you can't believe you're going to be dead?
(If van Fraassen were to object that the former is not really more informative than the latter, or at any rate not more informative in the appropriate sense whatever that is then we should certainly refuse to grant the premise that in order to be more explanatory a theory must be more informative).
"So I guess I just don't grant the premise of [Lena Hensvik's report] in asking that question.
Whether you are willing to grant the premises of this museum almost becomes irrelevant as you are drawn into its mixture of spectacle and narrative.
Given Principia Ethica's view about the value of beauty, Moore there rejected the premise of Sidgwick's argument, but he also argued that, even granting that premise, Sidgwick's conclusion does not follow.
