Sentence examples for serving as a premise from inspiring English sources

The Round Church includes three sections: the wide atrium (or courtyard), the narthex and the cella (also naos or, due to its shape, rotunda), each serving as a premise to the other.

It's possible to be horrified by this situation without the dramatic assistance of a novel, which is not to say that rape and reservation life can't serve as a premise for fiction.

The fictional effort of the spokesmen to get their jobs back served as a premise to set up Facebook and Twitter accounts and a YouTube channel on their behalf, and all will now be repurposed to promote the characters and Sonic.

This thesis served as a premise in the most influential argument against early theories that identified mental states with brain states (psychoneural identity theories).

This claim serves as a premise in what is known as his third man argument which, he seems to think, may show that the very notion of a Form is incoherent (Parmenides, 132ff).

In a sense, smart watch trailblazer Pebble was built on this premise — serving as a companion to your smartphone and offering at-a-glance access to important notifications.

And our children, whether we realize it or not, have been serving as a proving ground for the premise of medicating to enhance performance.

The object of this paper is to present 10 major premises serving as a holistic conception for research on multifunctional landscapes (MFLs).

The prescriptive account of ontological commitment serves as a crucial premise in the Quine-Putnam indispensability argument for the existence of abstract entities (the locus classicus is Putnam 1971).

It may be that knowledge of some propositions (of a sort that could serve as a major premise in an inference by which one's perceptual experience could be interpreted) is required if one's experience with a gorilla is to provide one with knowledge of the gorilla's presence.

These will serve as a conceptual premise for a clinically oriented analysis of the phenotypical effects associated with the AZFc variants.