Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

This was not, for the Angel, just a matter of running through a logical or deductive chain, or deciding on some action from some already established premise.

Until he began making spoken dialogue films with The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), he never shot from a completed script, but instead usually started with only a vague premise — for example " Charlie enters a health spa " or " Charlie works in a pawn shop.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

Tom Stoppard used this coincidence as a premise for his play Travesties ( 1974 ), which includes Tzara, Lenin, and James Joyce as characters.

The successful show enjoyed a five-year run, and functioned as a curtain-raiser for The Carol Burnett Show, remembered today for its abrupt season-to-season changes in casting and premise.

The original premise was for the couple to portray Lucy and Larry Lopez, a successful show business couple whose glamorous careers interfered with their efforts to maintain a normal marriage.

Work on expert systems ( computer software designed to provide an answer to a problem, or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted ) typically is grounded on the premise that expertise is based on acquired repertoires of rules and frameworks for decision making which can be elicited as the basis for computer supported judgment and decision-making.

Bardach contends that policy explanations must be clear and down-to-earth enough for a taxi driver to be able to understand the premise during a trip through city streets.

His premise was that each repetition in learning increases the optimum interval before the next repetition is needed ( for near-perfect retention, initial repetitions may need to be made within days, but later they can be made after years ).

In his The Interpretation of Dreams ( 1900 ), Freud's analysis starts from the premise that " the play is built up on Hamlet's hesitations over fulfilling the task of revenge that is assigned to him ; but its text offers no reasons or motives for these hesitations ".

The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction.

* Hack ( comedy ), a joke, or premise for a joke, that is considered obvious, frequently used, and / or stolen.

Individualism makes the individual its focus and so starts " with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation.

Bertrand Russell's popular book The Problems of Philosophy highlights Berkeley's tautological premise for advancing idealism ;

A suitable premise for war arose in 1870, when the German Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was offered the Spanish throne, which had been vacant since a revolution in 1868.

His pangenesis theory was criticised for its Lamarckian premise that parents could pass on traits acquired in their lifetime.

Singer's argument for abortion differs from many other proponents of abortion, then ; rather than attacking the second premise of the anti-abortion argument, Singer attacks the first premise, denying that it is necessarily wrong to take innocent human life:

A well-known approximation scheme, the 1 / N expansion, starts from the premise that the number of colors is infinite, and makes a series of corrections to account for the fact that it is not.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

The unstated premise was that the surviving brother would be king.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

His instruction was based on the premise that Buddhist ideology is eternal, and that Buddha would send emanations to complete the missions he had initiated.

In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique " topsy-turvy " style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd.

The basic premise was to divide the players into two teams — attackers and defenders — with each side either assaulting or protecting the castle respectively.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

It was a widely held idea among traditional theories of the origin of language ( glottology ), assumed as a premise that children's use of language gives insights on its origin and evolution.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

A further premise was that the circuit was broken, explaining why it was " stuck " in that form.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.

It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe ( 1986 ) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ( in English, Friday ) ( 1967 ).

24 is a fast-paced television series with a premise inspired by the War on Terror.

Other films inspired by Gloria include Ultraviolet ( 2006 ), which uses the premise of a woman on the run with a little boy and transposes the story to a dystopian futuristic setting, and Erick Zonca's 2008 film Julia, starring Tilda Swinton.

The film inspired the Swedish radio show Mosebacke Monarki ( 1958 – 1983 ), particularly through its basic premise that a small part of the nation's capital is suddenly found to be a separate microstate.

Although Leary propounded the basic premise of eight " brains " or brain circuits, he was inspired by sources such as the Hindu chakra system.

According to Adams, the premise of the game was inspired by a real-life experience.

As the title indicates, the premise of the series is inspired by the fairy tale " Beauty and the Beast "; in particular, there is some connection to the Jean Cocteau French film of 1946, La Belle et la Bête.

Wallace's own diary described the writing process for this draft: Cooper fed aspects of the story ( inspired partly by an aspiration to use as much footage of an abandoned RKO picture with a similar premise, Creation, as possible ) in story conferences and phone conversations ; Wallace then executed Cooper's ideas, the latter approving the developing script on a sequence-by-sequence basis.

TinyMUD itself inspired an entire family of MUDs based entirely on the premise of allowing users to build online.

Some fifty years later, the premise of Five Children and It inspired the plot of Half Magic ( 1954 ) by the American author of children's books Edward Eager.

The premise of Gomer Pyle is similar to and perhaps inspired by Andy Griffith's movie No Time for Sergeants, which was based on the Mac Hyman novel of the same name.

Aimed at the whole family, the film was allegedly inspired by The Wizard of Oz with the basic premise being a road trip.

The premise of an innocent person becoming entangled in a web of intrigue is one common in Hitchcock films such as The 39 Steps, Saboteur, North by Northwest and, most notably, The Man Who Knew Too Much, which inspired the opera house sequence in Foul Play.

The premise of naming and counting is inspired by passages in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke which say that God has numbered every hair on our heads and that God is aware of every sparrow that falls.

* The City States starts from the premise that artists are inspired by the ‘ freedom of the city ’.

With a growing realisation that making money was, as he told Andrew Marr in a 2005 BBC interview, " only half of the equation ;" and inspired by his hero Andrew Carnegie, whose book " The Gospel of Wealth " central premise he often quotes:

The Great Pumpkin was first mentioned by Linus in Peanuts in 1959, but the premise was reworked by Schulz many times throughout the run of the strip, and also inspired the 1966 animated television special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Similar to the book, the film's premise was partially inspired by pages missing from John Wilkes Booth's diary.

Roger Ebert gave the movie two-out-of-four stars, describing the premise as an " inspired idea " that deteriorates from a " sharp-edged satire a sappy sitcom.

The premise for the film was inspired by Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and John Howard Griffin's autobiographical Black Like Me.

The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work ; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show.