Sentence examples for hidden premises from inspiring English sources

It surveys their arguments, parsing them out in numbered propositions, seeking hidden premises, insisting on ever finer distinctions and finally offering criticism and counterproposals.

Despite sharing the same linguistic system of the French language, the interactants in the debate do not always seem to have sufficient knowledge to fully comprehend the other side's hidden premises, hindering good progress and a balanced outcome.

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.

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.

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

Start with the premise that great truths are hidden within, waiting to be discovered.

It reads in part: Yesterday, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered approximately 20 rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip.

The idea of Martha's identity being hidden behind a layer of something fits neatly with this premise.