As with the rest of the Carmen Sandiego franchise, the show's basic premise had the ACME Detective Agency attempting to stop the title thief and her V. I. L. E.

The season three clipshow episode " The Straight Poop " also made fun of the episode delays by having Hollywood columnist Rona Barrett drop by the Blue Moon Detective Agency to figure out why David and Maddie couldn't get along, as the premise to set up the clips from earlier episodes.

Having a similar premise to the 1980s American film RoboCop and the 1970s tokusatsu Robot Detective, Jiban is a rookie cop gunned down and reborn as a fighting machine against the Criminal Syndicate Bioron, a group of bio-genetic freaks.

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In 1985, writer Alan Moore gave a somewhat darker glimpse into the world of Krypton in his story " For the Man Who Has Everything " ( in Superman Annual # 11 ), the premise being an elaborate dream of Superman's in which Krypton had not exploded and he'd grown to adulthood there.

# Disputing premise 1: Jesus was indeed a wise moral teacher, but his reported teachings have been distorted or misrepresented.

# Disputing premise 4: A person can be a wise moral teacher despite lying.

# Disputing premise 5: A person can be a wise moral teacher despite being delusional.

# REDIRECT premise

# only allows range-restricted variables, i. e. each variable in the conclusion of a rule must also appear in a not negated clause in the premise of this rule.

# On the premise of acknowledging the 1992 Consensus, encourage the reopening of talks across the strait ;

# Legislative courts established under the premise that, where Congress could have simply given the Executive Branch the power to make a decision, it has the lesser power to create a tribunal to make that decision.

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.

Based on the premise that all relevant information is already reflected by prices, technical analysts believe it is important to understand what investors think of that information, known and perceived.

It arises from the premise that the world consists of objects ( entities ) which are perceived or otherwise presumed to exist as entities, by subjects ( observers ).

A premise of sex magic is the concept that sexual energy is a potent force that can be harnessed to transcend one's normally perceived reality.

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.

Several versions exist, though they all have the same basic premise, that of a set of instructions given by the Great Goddess to her worshippers.

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.

These theories work from the central premise that effective learners are active agents who construct knowledge by setting goals, analyzing tasks, planning strategies and monitoring their understanding.

Marx then extended this premise by asserting the importance of the fact that, in order to carry out production and exchange, people have to enter into very definite social relations, most fundamentally " production relations ".

I must have been crazy ; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it.

The premise is that Lars von Trier challenges director Jørgen Leth, his friend and mentor, to remake his old experimental film The Perfect Human ( 1967 ) five times, each time with a different ' obstruction ' ( or obstacle ) specified by von Trier.

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

" is uttered, and this premise is negated ( by the fact of a person being murdered ), the speaker is not to change his sentence upon observation of this into: " Kill other people!

" 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.

Given that premise, the notion of absolute knowledge ( as described by Plato and the rationalists ) is seen as mere illusion, and this is what he set out to demonstrate in the first part of his magnum opus " The Critique of Pure Reason " ( 1781 ).

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

Shamanism is based on the premise that the visible world is pervaded by invisible forces or spirits which affect the lives of the living.

The foreign policy of Sweden is based on the premise that national security is best served by staying free of alliances in peacetime in order to remain a neutral country in the event of war.

Sociobiology is based on the premise that some behaviors ( both social and individual ) are at least partly inherited and can be affected by natural selection.

Free will furthers this argument by providing a premise which, in conjunction with the existence of evil, entails that God's existence remains consistent.

The premise is that the United States / NATO and the Soviet Union / Warsaw Pact have fought a lengthy conventional war, followed by a ( limited ) nuclear war with all its consequences.

The fact that William Wirt, their choice for the presidency in 1832, not only was a former Mason but also even supposedly defended the Order in a speech before the convention that nominated him indicates that mere opposition to Masonry was by no means the central premise of the political order.