"philosophical premise" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to mean an underlying belief or assumption about something, particularly in a philosophical context. For example, "The philosophical premise of nihilism states that life has no inherent meaning or value."
From that philosophical premise, the sacred cannot be dismissed.
But it does have a philosophical premise, which is that there are grand cycles in nature, whether of ants, or people or the biosphere.
You could say that each of the two other companies one might have expected to dominate the New Economy was the victim of a flawed philosophical premise.
The subject of the documentary is, to begin with, the preëxisting or even material reality of what's filmed; if it's a genre at all, it exists by way of an aesthetic or even philosophical premise.
The philosophical premise of capitalism is that managers should maximize gains for shareholders.
So, the basic philosophical premise of local IRBs is very good.
The latter, according to New Wave prophet Harlan Ellison, want total freedom to entertain philosophical premises that are emotionally disturbing.
Indeed, both in its policy vision and its philosophical premises, the slide show represents a monument to certain trends in contemporary liberalism.
She is certainly ready for a change, knowing as she does "that an emotion was a sum totaled by an adding machine of the mind," and that nothing leaves an afterglow like rape — so long as one keeps the act attached to those frequently checked philosophical premises.
The sects of Agamic Shaivas (Shiva worshipers who follow their own Agama traditional"—texts) encompass both the Sanskritic Shaiva-siddhanta i.e., thoShaiva-siddhanta iphilosophical premises and conclusions of Shaivas in the north—and the southern Lingayats or Virashaivas (from vira, literally "hero"; a lingam is the Shiva emblem that is worshipped in lieu of images).e
Consequently, he resists apologetic attempts to generate religious belief from philosophical premises.
