"premise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The survey operates on the unspoken premise that books are our culture's premier system of information storage, and the preferred medium for imaginative storytelling.
- Its unspoken premise was that every ethnic group until then had found its own distinctive path to success.
- In fact, this argument uses the first claim as an unspoken premise.
- Perhaps they were accepting Mr. Brant's unspoken premise that life on the streets these days is not to be tamed and that we better find beauty in what we have.
- His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty.
- Any good informal logic textbook tells us to beware of sentences that trick the mind into accepting unspoken premises.
- There is no addressing of the unspoken premises and therein lies the problem.
- Violent crime in Central Park disturbs an unspoken premise by which almost all American life proceeds, which is the notion that streets are dangerous but nature is safe.
- The show's unspoken premise is that garages are sacred spaces, temples to male chromosomes.
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