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
And with Jackson’s guilt established as a premise, the rest unravelled itself step by step, clearly, logically, irrefutably.
From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
