Sentence examples for implicit premise from inspiring English sources

(CBS wouldn't allow Moore to play a divorced woman, but that was the implicit premise anyway).

That device also echoes the play's implicit premise that to place people, and a people, into preconceived boxes is dangerous.

The FDA's position — and the implicit premise of the relevant Tobacco Act provisions — is that producers must be barred from making statements that might mislead consumers.

We'll read more of those head-shaking editorials whose implicit premise is that extremism is a broad cultural propensity rather than an ideological characteristic peculiar to one party.

It's the implicit premise of all those "reality" shows on television, which can transform a corpulent corporate consultant into a People cover boy.

Advocates of both the free trade position and the regulatory competition critique share an implicit premise that the state and the market are autonomous.

One of Mr Obama's implicit premises, without which this argument makes no sense, is that the public goods he has in mind are paid for, at least in part, with federal income taxes.

Another of Mr Obama's implicit premises, the really important one, is that the rich currently pay too small a share of the cost of the relevant public goods that the rich are enjoying the benefits of the enabling background system without contributing adequately to its upkeep.

In doing so, the deductivist may note that implicit premises are a generally accepted feature of natural language arguments, and invoke standard ways of identifying implicit premises.

The scholarly controversy concerns what theory and implicit premises to ascribe to the writer so that the arguments come out as cogent defenses of a reasonable position.

Notable exceptions were the work of Chin and Osborne (2008) who found that asking critical questions during argumentation could interrogate the implicit premises of an argument, point to exceptional situations or other possible arguments.