It was a show, Steichen wrote, conceived to mirror "the essential oneness" of humanity, a premise to which much of Arbus's mature work is a violent rebuke.
Typically, he said, he opens a tune with an arrangement or "premise," to which he returns at the tune's closing, establishing musical markers along the way.
(Premise, to which even the Fool agrees).
Such a transcendental deduction begins with a premise about any possible human experience, a premise to which reasonable participants in the debate can be expected initially to agree, and then contends that a presupposition and necessary condition of the truth of that premise is the applicability of the a priori concepts in question to the objects of experience.
Put in positive terms: in any model in which the premises are true (or in any interpretation of the premises according to which they are true), the conclusion is true too.
As this form of argument appears in philosophy, the interest, and the difficulty, reside not in the movement from premises to conclusions, which is absolutely routine, but in the setting up of the major premises in the kinds of things that are taken as starting points.
In a symposium on the given with Lewis (1952a) and Reichenbach (1952), Goodman (1952) argued that the premises relative to which other statements are credible or probable just have to be initially credible on their own to some degree, not certain.
Lincoln believed that the Constitution rested upon the moral premises, according to which no one (or group of people) is entitled to deprive others of their rightful freedom.
The Framers of both the original Constitution and the Reconstruction Amendments subscribed to broadly Lockean premises, according to which liberty consists in the exercise of natural rights that pre-exist government, as well as civil rights necessary to secure those rights, like the right to access the courts and the right to make and enforce contracts.
