Sentence examples for major premises of from inspiring English sources

Dilemma, in syllogistic, or traditional, logic, any one of several forms of inference in which there are two major premises of hypothetical form and a disjunctive ("either... or") minor premise.

The major premises of functionalism were that every aspect of a culture, no matter how seemingly disparate (e.g., kinship terms, technology, food, mythology, artistic motifs), had a substantive purpose and that within a given culture these diverse structures worked together to maintain the group's viability.

Of those participants agreeing with statement 11 'New traits within a population appear at random'), 94.0% (n = 47) also agreed with statement 14, indicating that 61.8% (n = 47) of all participants correctly understand these two major premises of natural selection.

Dave Anderson conveniently ignores a major premise of the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs tennis match ("It's Time for a Battle of the Sexes in Golf," July 20).

A major premise of Hay House wisdom is that it can be gleaned by anyone with the time and desire to connect to other levels of reality.

The major premise of this new discipline was that mass production methods affect the worker both in the immediate job environment and in relations with fellow workers and supervisors.

A major premise of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling is that prompt disclosure of campaign contributions can allow voters to judge whether candidates are " 'in the pocket' of so-called money interests".

"The major premise of the book," Cort said, "is that A.J.'s father knows right from wrong and always does right, A.J. knows the difference but wiggles, and A.J.'s son, who becomes a studio executive, is essentially amoral.

An evenhanded statement that will dissatisfy one side of the gun debate, but a statement that makes sense given a major premise of the book: Over the past two decades the Glock has been cast as a boogeyman, but as Barrett suggests, firearms "do not have inherent moral qualities".

Not only is the major premise of the animation false (trend does not determine future value or trend – all trends by nature refer to the past and may not refer to the future) but the intended climate message is, if not strictly false, biased and misleading.

First, the major premise of the argument seems false.