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

The Rational Recovery program is based on the premise that the addict both desires and is capable of permanent, planned abstinence.

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

* TV format, overall concept, premise and branding of a television program

The program, which earned her three Emmys, was based on the premise that each drama was in answer to a question asked in her fan mail.

According to Asher, " TPR is based on the premise that the human brain has a biological program for acquiring any natural language on earth-including the sign language of the deaf ".

The entire program was built on the premise that extremely good schools in the inner city combined with paid busing would be enough to achieve integration.

A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras ; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained.

A TV format describes the overall concept, premise and branding of a copyrighted television program.

He said that such a premise would have involved deceiving thousands of expertly trained NASA employees, including himself, and that he saw no such evidence of this during his work on the Apollo program or his 20 year directorship of NASA's Goddard Institute.

A premise of that program was that workers would raise their productivity in response to incentive wages only if their money could buy a greater variety of consumer products.

The associated reductive Lie groups are of significant interest: the Langlands program is based on the premise that what is done for one reductive Lie group should be done for all.

The book's premise is that a good software program or web site should let users accomplish their intended tasks as easily and directly as possible.

The premise of Dream Job was to find a new anchor for ESPN's popular sports news program, SportsCenter.

Though many of its opponents supported the larger West Side development program, they questioned the economic benefit of a stadium which would have spent much of its time unused, as well as the general premise of subsidizing a football team which generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for a private owner.

Les Oraliens, unlike a contemporary children's program with a similar premise, Les 100 tours de Centour, was more about proper pronunciation than sentence construction.

The program teaches grades K-5, and similar to the all-girls schools-the program is founded on the premise that boys learn differently than girls, and they may behave differently to meet " macho " expectations, and that they require a more active, hands-on teaching style.

The program is based on the premise that Missouri's gifted youth must be provided with special opportunities for learning and personal development in order for them to realize their full potential.

The premise of the ATLS program is to treat the greatest threat to life first.

Nia ( previously Non-Impact Aerobics, Neuromuscular Integrative Action ) is a non-impact physical conditioning program based on the premise that movement is a pathway for self-discovery and personal transformation.

When teaching songwriting classes, Paul often introduces aspiring songwriters to his " six-step program to effective songwriting " which is based on the premise that songwriters should show and not tell.

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 ".

Searle's thought experiment begins with this hypothetical premise: suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in constructing a computer that behaves as if it understands Chinese.

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

" 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.

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 ).

Note that, in the first part of the second premise, the present-tense verb, " putting ," has been changed to the infinitive, " to put.

The 1943 war-time story " Nothing But Gingerbread Left ", written decades before by science fiction writer Henry Kuttner, has a very close premise.

The basic premise of Mage: The Ascension is that everyone has the capacity, at some level, to shape reality.

" Says Rand, " The attack on man's consciousness and particularly on his conceptual faculty has rested on the unchallenged premise that any knowledge acquired by a process of consciousness is necessarily subjective and cannot correspond to the facts of reality, since it is " processed knowledge ... all knowledge is processed knowledge — whether on the sensory, perceptual or conceptual level.

He argues that, if God's existence and the existence of evil are to be logically inconsistent, a premise must be provided which, if true, would make them inconsistent ; as none has been provided, the existence of God and evil must be consistent.

Although there have been many works since emphasising different aspects of the " Efficient ", no one has seriously questioned Bagehot's premise that the divide exists in the Westminster system.

The premise of reality shows has been called into question.

This form of argument is an informal fallacy, because the attack Q may not necessarily reveal anything about the truth value of the premise P. This fallacy has been identified since the Middle Ages by many philosophers.

The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.

Thus, insofar as petitio principii refers to arguing for a conclusion that has already been assumed in the premise, this fallacy consists of " begging " the listener to accept the " question " ( proposition ) before the labor of logic is undertaken.

From Hell takes as its premise Stephen Knight's theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were part of a conspiracy to conceal the birth of an illegitimate royal baby fathered by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, slightly modified: the involvement of Walter Sickert is reduced, and Knight's allegation that the child's mother was a Catholic has been dropped.

Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion: in a major premise, this is the major term ( i. e., the predicate of the conclusion ); in a minor premise, it is the minor term ( the subject ) of the conclusion.

In an article revisiting the argument ten years after it was originally proposed, Schellenberg writes that criticism has mainly centered around the second premise.

It has been pointed out that the premise of iridology is at odds with the fact that the iris does not undergo substantial changes in an individual's life.

If one has already accepted the premise, there is no need to reason to the conclusion.

" Its premise is that the potential of the modernist vision has not been fulfilled, that its development has been in the wrong direction and that this vision needs to be reclaimed, redefined and redeveloped.