"premise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Questions can also be infelicitous, being based on incorrect and illogical premises (e.g. "Why do cats have green wings?")
- I could not dispute them if they were not founded upon incorrect premises.
- In a statement, the bank said, "Mr. Lewis's action is wholly arbitrary, based on demonstrably incorrect factual premises, and is otherwise unfair."
- The pioneering Greenwich Village frozen-food store, Penguin Food, was founded on the fatally incorrect premise that people would go to a separate store to buy the new wonder of frozen goods.
- Nice to see a comment in CIF (albeit from an incorrect premise) that discrimination against white people is wrong.
- A democracy cannot and should not go to war under false or incorrect premises.
- The critics were attacking only one and from an incorrect premise, he said.
- Are my premises incorrect, or my reasoning faulty?
- Their science reeks with incorrect premises.
- Both the Starr referral and Mr. Schippers' presentation to the committee start from the incorrect premise that the President testified that he was never alone with Ms. Lewinsky.
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