Sentence examples for upon premises from inspiring English sources

Reductio ad absurdum, (Latin: "reduction to absurdity"), in logic, a form of refutation showing contradictory or absurd consequences following upon premises as a matter of logical necessity.

Scientific inductions depend upon data transmitted and supported by testimony and even our everyday inductive inferences typically rest upon premises that come to us indirectly.

Whereas science relies upon premises which are necessary and known to be so, a dialectical discussion can proceed by relying on endoxa, and so can claim only to be as secure as the endoxa upon which it relies.

You now have been offered a new beginning, a chance to re-create yourself more masterfully -- to become a person whose life is founded upon premises of honesty, integrity, and sound judgment.

Always smile as customer enters upon premises even if they appear to be angry and do not smile at you.

Absolute idealism was based upon three premises: That the chief datum of philosophy is the human self and its self-consciousness.

A CPS spokesman said on Wednesday: "I can confirm that Jason Chan, William James and Paul May have been charged with being found in or upon enclosed premises, contrary to section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.

It was also concerned that decisions as to whether a political statement is "true" would necessarily involve a political judgment, based upon political premises, which an impartial body would be poorly placed to adjudicate in.

Vasubandhu certainly shared this view, and he drew upon the premises of impermanence and the impossibility of change to establish momentariness in his own works.

Rather, the arguments supporting these twenty convictions rely upon unproven premises that are accepted only among the falâsifa, but are not established by reason.

What we have in mind here are the dependencies of conclusions upon both premises and assumptions that may have been made only "for the sake of argument".