as a premise
Example Sentences
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“So what if the movie takes that not as a premise but as a fact?” asks Perry.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
"Once you've accepted something as a premise and committed to it, you can be entirely internally consistent and reach more and more outlandish conclusions."
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023
Other sci-fi series take climate emergency as a premise.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
This may sound elementary, but I present it as a premise to which is to follow.
From Search-Light Letters by Grant, Robert
