as a premise
Example Sentences
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You’re also talking about music from the lens of the ’90s as a premise for the special.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024
"Once you've accepted something as a premise and committed to it, you can be entirely internally consistent and reach more and more outlandish conclusions."
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023
Other sci-fi series take climate emergency as a premise.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
An argument that uses as a premise such a cause may predicate its effect as a conclusion with absolute certainty.
From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)
