Sentence examples for impossible premise from inspiring English sources

I loved the way that Wyndham took an impossible premise and blew it up into a world that felt frightening and strange and indisputably real.

Rowell pulls off this impossible premise with great charm, and her depictions of the couple's sweet courtship and their later compromise-filled marriage are equally unsentimental and knowing.

Whereas valid deductive inferences guarantee the truth of their conclusions, in the sense that it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false, good inductive inferences guarantee only that, if the premises are true, the conclusion is probable, or likely to be true.

In a deductively valid argument, it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.

But none of these "impossible or ridiculous premises" are true and it is time, the writer declared, "to secure attention to the real business before us".

Resting on the observation that it is impossible for the premises of a valid argument to be true while the conclusion is false, this method attempts to interpret (or evaluate) the premises in such a way that they are all simultaneously satisfied and the negation of the conclusion is also satisfied.

The first one is a familiar one: it is impossible for the premises to be true but conclusion false.

The KS proof then shows that it is impossible (given its premises, of course) to assign to the spin-1 particle values for all these arbitrary choices.

Classically, an argument is said to be (deductively) valid if and only if it is impossible that the premises of A are all true, while its conclusion is false.

Like all the claims in his book, his premise is impossible to check because he provides no references.

However, Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that rocket fire from Gaza had "made continuation of talks impossible" and "destroyed the premise upon which the talks were based".