The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

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.

The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

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

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

An axiom is a premise or starting point of reasoning.

As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.

Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Bidding is based on the premise that the lowest contract available to bidders starts with the proposition to take seven tricks, i. e. one cannot contract to make less than seven tricks.

The premise of the show is that a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world.

The return from exile is the theological premise of prophet's visions in chapters 1-6.

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 ”.

The basic premise of the transactional model of communication is that individuals are simultaneously engaging in the sending and receiving of messages.

The premise of mainstream cognitive behavioral therapy is that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and in behavior but recent variants emphasize changes in one's relationship to maladaptive thinking rather than changes in thinking itself.

The basic premise of all of these is that something caused the Universe to exist, and this First Cause must be God.

Secondly, the premise of causality has been arrived at via a posteriori ( inductive ) reasoning, which is dependent on experience.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

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.

In fact, he conceded that there would indeed be an extra premise needed, but denied that the cogito is a syllogism ( see below ).

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.

The army's very premise, to suppress Frederick, was found false-on being notified of his victory at on 5 November 1757, the Swedish commander Marshal Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg dared not obey the orders from his government and the French agent Marc René de Montalembert to lead his ill-equipped army in a march on Berlin, instead returning in November 1757 to Swedish Pomerania, where the Swedes were being besieged by the Prussians at Stralsund and Rügen.

According to the story's premise, if a golden token is inserted into the mouth of the jester's head on top of the tombstone of " Professor Ludwig von Tökkentäkker ", a haunted amusement park will appear after long absence.

Excellence in this case is derived in part from the tradition of Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Carl von Clausewitz and Helmuth von Moltke and was based upon the premise that hard-and-fast rules had no place in the environment of war, which was the realm of human emotion, friction, chance and uncertainty.

This premise also challenges traditional thinking within the communist movement, which has tended to see the process of revolution as some kind of linear and almost " fated " development, which imbues the advance of revolution and communism with some kind of " historical inevitability ".

The premise for the series was that billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Worldwide, challenges 16 contestants to tasks that will prove to him which is most qualified to take over as president of Virgin Worldwide.

As a break from tradition from previous Rare games the gameplay is simple in design, utilizing the simple premise of moving through the game's mansion and completing the required ' beat em ' up ' challenges for each room.

The premise is that, as a street racer, the player must impress other drivers with quick but stylish driving in a series of challenges.

Hereafter received mixed reviews from critics, with the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes being, " Despite a thought-provoking premise and Clint Eastwood's typical flair as director, Hereafter fails to generate much compelling drama, straddling the line between poignant sentimentality and hokey tedium.

The director pitched the premise of two investment partners getting involved in questionable financial dealings, using each other, and they are tailed by a prosecutor as in Crime and Punishment.

Remington Steele ’ s initial premise was conceived in 1969 by long-time television director Robert Butler as a series featuring a solo female private investigator.

Despite these efforts, however, word of his unreliable reputation had spread throughout the entertainment industry and he could only find work as a television director, helming the pilots for Beverly Hills Buntz ( a Dennis Franz vehicle that purloined the premise of Beverly Hills Cop and lasted for 13 episodes ) and Jake's Journey, a planned collaboration in the Arthurian sword and sorcery vein with Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame.

The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Of Zionism, executive director of the institute Yaron Brook writes: " Zionism fused a valid concern – self-preservation amid a storm of hostility – with a toxic premise – ethnically based collectivism and religion.

In 1972 director Robert Kaplan and cinematographer Paul Glickman concocted the idea of a movie whose premise would be using a transvestite as the lead in a film without revealing the sex of the actress.

The original premise had the son of S. H. I. E. L. D director Nick Fury assembling a team of elite commandos to battle neo-Nazi terrorists HYDRA.

Nordstrom enlists the aid of his friend and French agent André Devereaux ( Frederick Stafford ), encouraging him to accompany his daughter Michèle ( Claude Jade ) on her honeymoon with journalist François Picard ( Michel Subor ) as a premise to get him to New York.

A similar premise in John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live was adapted from the story by Ray Nelson, who reworked the idea from his friend Philip K. Dick's never-produced film treatment for an episode of The Invaders TV series.

The second season episode " Huggy Bear and the Turkey " was the test pilot for a proposed spin off with Huggy and his friend, former Sheriff " Turkey " Turquet ( Dale Robinette ) becoming private investigators ; However, the premise proved unpopular with viewers and it never led to a series.

The series began with the following premise: An individual sets up a friend or family member with a surprise room redecoration.

Launched as an original Image comic book title by popular X-Men penciler Jim Lee and his friend, writer Brandon Choi, the comic book's premise revolved around the centuries long war between aliens called Kherubim and Daemonites.

Jacob and his friend Lisa investigate this legend, and fulfill the conditions of the premise ; whereupon the jester's head comes to life and raises the undead carnival from the ground, all trying to take their brains.

The premise of both episodes was that Ringo was a misunderstood outlaw and longtime friend of Manolito Montoya ( Henry Darrow ).

The premise of the song came from a joke told by the child of a friend of Wooley's ; Wooley finished composing it within an hour.

The basic premise of Exiles involves a love triangle between Richard Rowan ( a Dublin writer recently returned from exile in Rome ), Bertha ( his common law wife ) and his old friend Robert Hand ( a journalist ).