Sentence examples for hidden premise from inspiring English sources

This is because the hidden premise of such language is that when U.S.-based multinationals expand abroad, that substitutes for their U.S. operations.

The hidden premise of gun control is the state's monopoly on force, the willing renunciation of the most potent form of self-defense in favor of collective defense — not the naïve wishing-away of violent crime but the assumption of effective law enforcement that would both thwart and obviate the proliferation of firearms.

A hidden premise appears to be present in the first excerpt, using a contrastive expression: (12) Et cette citoyenneté ne doit pas être opposée à la citoyenneté française.

The hidden premise is that there are currently no equal opportunities for everyone in New Caledonian society because people fail to exert sufficient individual effort to remain unified as a nation.

The hidden premise that powered Paris was that countries would not wait until the 2020 deadline, but would act promptly.

It may hide significant premises in inductive support relationships.

Enthymemes constitute hidden or unexpressed premises that, according to van Eemeren (2001: 17), "are often pivotal in transferring acceptance from the premises that are explicitly put forward in the argumentation for the standpoint that is defended".

Like, dude does not have a cubicle hidden on the premises.

There are no simultaneous events at TED, so speakers can't hide behind the premise of a self-selecting audience.

He and his siblings knew every nook of their apartment; if Jean had hidden such a device on the premises, he would have found it.

We're driven back to the beginning of the book to search for clues about what went wrong, where the false premises might have been hidden, and what forces in our country could have made such a transformation inevitable.