The era of metaphysics did not end with the rise of laboratory science, Hegel argues, but the focus of attention must now shift to the implicit metaphysics at work in scientific discourse (S1, the basic premises, pushed beneath the bar, as the terminological unconscious of science).
"Not now, Bob," says his wife (Laurie Metcalf), displaying why beneath its supposedly risky premise the series is just one more benign and stale family sitcom.
Jonathan Wright 8pm, Channel 4 Beneath a curiously niche premise – Paul Merton travels the country using the rail network's "request stops", of which there are more than 150 nationwide – is a fairly standard, albeit charming, British travelogue show.
But beneath the one-joke premise and the R-rated humor lays a piercing examination of a culture unable to let go of the entertainment they grew up on.
The firm quickly hired staff and set them up in cheap premises: the crypt beneath Holy Trinity church.
Beneath the din is a simple premise: if the other side knew the facts, if the other side really understood what was at stake, they would all surely agree.
I'm a member of Men Against Rape!" Buried beneath the show's dumb-joke premise is a sly argument that democracy is still worthwhile, not despite its reliance on pragmatism and influence trading but because of it.
Last year the coal seam gas exposé Frackman arrived, a terror-inducing polemic with a premise like a B-grade horror movie: the ground beneath us has literally been sold and filled with poison.
Because it came between their generation and mine, the premise of our family story has been pulled out from beneath us.
For all its pious, earnest air, "Seven Pounds" cries out to be remade as an Asian horror movie, so that the deep, creepy grotesqueness of its governing premise might be allowed to flourish, rather than to fester beneath the surface.
