as a premise
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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
Spoiler alert: internal monologues are common, court play is staged and choreographed and scripts often use the complexities of tennis as a premise to explore aspects of character.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
We have already shown that this assertion is based upon a confusion of the dream with the latent thoughts of the dream, that as a premise it overlooks the existence of the dream-work.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
