Sentence examples for premise about the from inspiring English sources

But is Mr Fukuyama's premise about the true threat correct?

The research she did then, studying scores of magazines published from 1870 to 1930, has resulted in another exhibition, one with a provocative premise about the strong presence of women in both the American art-pottery movement in factories, which began in the 1870's, and the studio-pottery movement of artists working alone, which emerged after 1900.

Axelrod continued, "So we had a very simple premise about the general election, which is that these Bush policies had failed, that McCain was essentially carrying the tattered banner of a failed Administration, and that we represented a change from all that.

But whatever else this premise might be perhaps something about the lattice structure of snow and the way it reflects light it will still need to be a premise about the world.

Each begins with a premise either about the self-attributability of mental items, apperception, or else a premise about the necessity and universality of some feature of our experience of objects.

In the case of hearing that the mail carrier has arrived by hearing the dog's bark, the conclusion (that the mail carrier has arrived) is only established if the premise about the dog's barking is true, and furthermore it depends on a defeasible connecting belief, that the dog's barking is a reliable indicator of the mail's arrival.

That notion runs contrary to our fundamental premises about the law.

And this is probably what Charles Murray was talking about when he wrote that "many of our opinions about policy are grounded on premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data".

If we simply assume methodological nationalism, the opposite of methodological Lennonism, it seems that we will have smuggled in a set of highly contestable moral premises about the legitimacy and priority of national interests.

Despite all his graphs and data-analysis, Murray is explicit about the limits of his empirical, sociological evidence: "Many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data..

This brings us back to the core of my argument: Namely, that much of contemporary secular liberalism depends on assertions that are potent and widely persuasive only because most Westerners are still deeply influenced by Christian premises about the nature and destiny of man.