The Obama White House has built its campaign on these kind of premises: They've bet heavily on Hispanic turnout, bet heavily on their social issues strategy, and bet heavily on the idea that their 2008 "Hope and Change" coalition can be mostly recreated despite a more polarized environment, a disappointing record, and a mostly negative campaign.
In Philoponus, too, one encounters for the first time a particular diagram which schematised what kind of conclusions (i.e. universal affirmative, universal negative, particular affirmative, or particular negative) follow from what kind of premises.
"That kind of premise is unthinkable now".
I would submit that this is not the argumentative method of a tolerant liberalism, or the kind of premise that sustains a "vast, pluralist, heterodox, freedom-loving democracy".
Lix's propagation problem — in the book's opening chapter, his sixth child is accidentally conceived on the front seat of a car — is the kind of premise that might have fuelled an amusing magic-realist novel.
It's the kind of premise that could apparently get a film green-lit in 1991, though it held no appeal for audiences (director Richard Shepard later described the film's best review as coming from his father, who called it "longish").
"Top of the Lake" is set a small town in which everyone knows everyone else and all is not as it seems -- in other words, it has the kind of premise we've seen many times before.
Yes, this was also the premise of Digg, and kind of the premise of Reddit, but the Delicious team isn't giving up.
There's not a person alive who doesn't need to hear this music, but it's hard to see how anyone's understanding is aided by that kind of moronic premise.
For various government and military agencies, this kind of on-premise secure storage is a requirement that Dropbox can't easily provide.
