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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The example's first premise is false – there are people who eat steak and are not quarterbacks – but the conclusion must be true, so long as the premises are true ( i. e. it is impossible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false ).

The rebuttal attacked by Hacking consists of accepting the first premise, but rejecting the second on the grounds that our ( big bang ) universe is just one in a long sequence of universes, and that the fine tuning merely shows that there have been many other ( poorly tuned ) universes preceding this one.

In 2006 the National Geographic Channel began broadcasting an hour long series with similar premise to the BBC series.

Counter to most political parties, the Unparty was founded more like a partnership than a democracy, based on the premise that the members were customers who would continue their support so long as progress was being made, and that it was up to the leadership of the executive to provide that value, albeit with input from the members.

" This basic premise, that communism is a science, has historically been a major point of contention with liberal thinkers such as Karl Popper, other communists in the international community, and for a long time, even within the RCP.

The unstated premise is that breaking the law ( or the wrong ) is justified, as long as the other party also does so.

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.

Before long, the premise of another world beyond a magic door had been lost completely.

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.

" The last episode of Three's Company aired as an hour long special that kicked off the 1984-85 fall television season and set up the premise for Three's A Crowd.

The premise of the film is fairly simple: long, long ago, the race of Nisser lived happily in Denmark getting up to mischief with the humans, drinking, and making merry.

The basic premise of the book is that if middle aged people can live long enough, until approximately 120, they will be able to live forever — as humanity overcomes all diseases and old age itself.

* Felipe is El Patrón's son, who has died long before the time of the story's premise.

Its action takes place twenty years after the previous play, The Marriage of Figaro: The story's premise is that several years ago, while the Count was away on a long business trip, the Countess and Chérubin spent a night together.

Built on the premise that three fat men were funnier than one, Rock created a surprising number of outlandish situations for the trio during the series long run.

Charles Darwin's writings provided the intellectual framework to Cleave's lifelong engagement with the relationship between diet and health, built upon the premise that the human body is ill-adapted to the diet of modern ( western ) man.

" Moore's character was initially intended to be a divorcée, but as divorce was still controversial at the time, and the network was afraid viewers might think that Mary had divorced Rob Petrie, Laura's husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the premise was changed to that of a single woman with a recently broken engagement.

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

He argued that in Berkeley's case the fallacy is not obvious and this is because one premise is ambiguous between one meaning which is tautological and another which, Stove argues, is logically equivalent to the conclusion.

The premise of the single working woman's life, alternating during the program between work and home, became a television staple.

" Shamanism encompasses the premise that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds.

In a 2008 article in InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy, formerly of Intel, introduces this term using successive versions of Microsoft Office between the year 2000 and 2007 as his premise.

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.

* Belisarius series: The premise of this science fiction ( more specifically alternate history ) series is that a war between two competing societies in the future spills over to 6th century Earth.

Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.

Issues between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan were settled in 2003, but Iran does not recognize these agreements, on the premise that the international law governing open water can not be applied to the Caspian Sea, which is in fact a lake ( a landlocked body of water ).

The love story between Berenice and Titus is also the premise of La clemenza di Tito ( 1734 ), an Italian opera by Antonio Caldara ( mus.

In a non sequitur, the conclusion could be either true or false, but the argument is fallacious because there is a disconnection between the premise and the conclusion.

The main premise deals with the obsessive relationship between two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, who murder Parker's mother.

While discussing his approach to writing episodes in a 1986 interview, he drew parallels between the premise and characters of Captain Scarlet and those of Thunderbirds, suggesting, for example, that the Spectrum Organisation was similar to International Rescue and that the character of Captain Black was like the earlier recurring villain from Thunderbirds, The Hood.

Its premise is based on the one-night stand between Damien Thorn and Kate Reynolds in Omen III.

She then proceeds to analyze literature and art from the premise that the primary conflict in Western culture has always been between these binary forces.

In trying to rebut this premise, some commentators point to differences between the categories of race and sexual orientation, claiming they are too complex to support any generalizations.

Johnson has employed numerous equivocations regarding the term " naturalism ", failing to distinguish between methodological naturalism ( in which science is used to study the natural world and says nothing about the supernatural ) versus philosophical naturalism ( the philosophical belief that nothing exists but the natural world, and adopts as a premise the idea that there is no supernatural world or deities ).

From Menaechmi comes the main premise of mistaken identity between

The main premise of this theory is that satisfaction is determined by a discrepancy between what one wants in a job and what one has in a job.

This may seem to conflict with the shared premise between progress-pessimists that there is no progress in philosophy, but the trick here is to argue that philosophical progress is not the only sort of progress to which philosophical inquiry might contribute.

According to this premise, variants between such regimes have a minor importance and the clashes counterposing their leaderships are just instrumental in supporting the interests of conflicting bureaucracies.

Research suggests there is currently an inverse relationship between horror vacui and value perception, and commercial designers are advised to favour minimalism in shop window displays and advertising to appeal to affluent and well-educated consumers, on the premise that horror vacui appeals more to poorer and less-educated audiences.