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.

Thematically, the book evokes a sense of paranoia later captured in the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which had a similar premise.

Kramer stated later that the principal actors believed so strongly in the premise that they agreed to act in the project even before seeing the script.

However, the issues raised during the Punjabi Suba movement were later used as a premise for creation of a separate Sikh state by the proponents of Khalistan.

According to William Law, Smith had made several proposals to Law's wife Jane, under the premise that Jane Law would enter a polyandrous marriage with Smith .. Law's wife later described Smith's proposals, saying that Smith had " asked her to give him half her love ; she was at liberty to keep the other half for her husband.

This advertising premise was substantiated by Virgil Exner's designs, notably the 1947 Studebaker Starlight coupé, which introduced innovative styling features that influenced later cars, including the flatback " trunk " instead of the tapered look of the time, and a wrap-around rear window.

The proposal was rejected, and Star Trek did not become a television reality until later that year when NBC accepted the premise, by which time the captain was changed to " Christopher Pike ".

Debuting in January 1961, The Avengers became an international success, although in later years its premise differed somewhat from Newman's initial set-up, veering into more humorous territory rather than remaining a gritty thriller.

The fifth premise, " The Fuzzies ", was also initially rejected by Coon, but a while later he changed his mind and called Gerrold's agent to accept it.

He was to the fore of Irish nationalist thinking and it has been noted by later nationalist heroes, such as Patrick Pearse, that while Wolfe Tone laid out the basic premise that Ireland as a nation must be free, Davis was the one who built this idea up promoting the Irish identity.

Asimov later considered the premise highly improbable, and became annoyed at Gold for having persuaded him to insert the subplot into the novel.

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 show was originally called Psycon and Cybertron in pre-production with a more technogoical premise, but the title was later changed to VR Troopers.

Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler's later bestseller Fail-Safe so closely resembled Red Alert in its premise that George sued on the charge of plagiarism, resulting in an out-of-court settlement.

There is no reliable evidence for this, however, and some Neoanalyst scholars operate on the premise that the Homeric epics were later than the Cyclic epics and drew on them extensively.

According to Pentecostal historian H. Vinson Synan, " the basic premise of Pentecostalism, that one may receive later effusions of the Spirit after initiation / conversion, can be clearly traced in Christian history to the beginnings of the rite of confirmation in the Western churches ".

It is later revealed that Lloyd intended the Steam Castle to be a sort of flying amusement park, but Eddy scoffed at such a premise, denouncing it as a " fairy tale vision.

The show's premise would later integrate to AFV.

According to Bouillier, the premise of his story was that " A woman who has left a man without saying why calls him years later and asks him to be the ' mystery guest ' at a birthday party thrown by the artist Sophie Calle.

Frustrated by how software seemed to always under-deliver, while hardware was always on time and under budget, Vivek Ranadivé set out to build software based on the premise of a " Software Bus " ( which later became known as " The Information Bus ," a. k. a. TIB ), where a " bus " is the standard data highway by which various elements – like a computer system such as the CPU, the memory, the I / O devices, etc.

The film's screenwriter, Albert Maltz, was later brought before The House Committee on Un-American Activities on the premise that some lines of dialogue in the film reflected Communist sympathies.

This became the setting and premise for many of his later works.

The film follows the basic premise of the original film, with an increased focus on Michael's childhood: ten-year-old Michael ( Daeg Faerch ) is shown killing animals and suffering verbal abuse from Judith ( Hanna R. Hall ) and his mother's boyfriend Ronnie ( William Forsythe ), both of whom he later murders.

One deleted scene portrayed three of the main gremlins, Daffy, Lenny, and George, sneaking into television host Grandpa Fred's studio and " helping " him host, acting on the premise that Grandpa Fred's show was intended to be scary ( though this scene was later included in the tie-in novel ).