"premise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In those circumstances, Mr. Elman wrote a brief that tackled the legal and factual premises of segregation head on.
- Macmillan canceled Mr. Chandler's book, it said, because of challenges raised about its "factual premises."
- Not only is it hard to be sympathetic to her position, but the factual premise of her essay is wrong.
- Further factual premises about such things as the psychology of learning and methods of teaching; and 5.
- In a statement, the bank said, "Mr. Lewis's action is wholly arbitrary, based on demonstrably incorrect factual premises, and is otherwise unfair."
- Some, however, have held that the factual premises are simply false.
- But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable.
- Some specific factual premises of the critique as phrased above (especially on the macroeconomic side) are not accepted by defenders, or indeed all critics, of the Washington Consensus.
- That includes *arguments* about moral, political and environmental issues, but not the factual premises on which those arguments have to rest.
- Finally, I would take issue with Professor Levin's identification of the "tacit factual premise" of the affirmative-action argument: "that black underachievement is caused by white oppression."
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