Quotes About Premise

Every induction is a syllogism with the major premise suppressed.

Nu exist? nici o soluÈ›ie pentru nimic, iat? premisa de la care ar trebui s? plec?m cu toÈ›i în construcÈ›ia actelor È™i gândurilor. În realitate, tot ce facem È™i gândim purcede din negaÈ›ia acestei premise.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

But most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of goodwill, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap—essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals arise from this fact.

It is the premise of science fiction that anything shown shall in principle be interpretable empirically and rationally. In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons—and the pattern of occurrences must be verisimilar.

Democracy is built on the simplest premise that has ever supported a political system, that a majority of the voters will be right more often than they are wrong.

What is new today is the premise that students are fragile. Even those who are not fragile themselves often believe that others are in danger and therefore need protection. There is no expectation that students will grow stronger from their encounters with speech or texts they label "triggering." (This is the Untruth of Fragility: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker.)

I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

I never saw the premise as 'Godless' is the story of a town full of women. I always saw 'Godless' as being made up of a lot of intersecting, related stories that literally meet in the final episode.

O ponto é o princípio ou a origem da linha, mas não sua causa; o instante é o princípio ou a origem da atividade [mas não a causa do ato]; o ponto de partida é o princípio do movimento, mas não a causa do movimento; as premissas são os princípios do argumento, mas não sua causa.

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

The mummy's curse really didn't catch on as a premise until they opened Tut's tomb. But it is true that there are spells, and incantations, and warnings on some of the pharaoh's tombs that do promise destruction to anyone who disrupts their eternal sleep, so there is precedence for it.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

When thinkers accept those who deny the existence of thinking, as fellow thinkers of a different school of thought—it is they who achieve the destruction of the mind. They grant the enemy's basic premise, thus granting the sanction of reason to formal dementia. A basic premise is an absolute that permits no co-operation with its antithesis and tolerates no tolerance.

There's a way to solve every dilemma of that kind, Mr. Rearden. Check your premises.

La paura serve. Intanto è una forma di rispetto e anche di reverenza dovuta all'immensità del luogo che si attraversa. Il timore è la premessa della concentrazione. Non intralcia le mosse, ne aumenta la precisione.

I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.

The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction.

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power.

I had watched 'What Lies Beneath' long before I signed 'Raaz.' It was similar in terms of the story premise and the infidelity part. But I didn't have to go and watch the other film. Once I read the script I wanted to bring my own perspective. I didn't want to copy from a Hollywood film.