Premises Quotes
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions
Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.