A
false premise is an incorrect or faulty statement or assumption on which an argument or belief is based. It means that the starting point or foundation of a discussion or reasoning is inaccurate or invalid.
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The two sites referred to above start out from a
clearly false premise: that scientists studying global warming have ignored the impact of water vapour.
This is an example of commitment, he was committed to making his painting, which were committed to him
under false premises, and gave his life to making these paintings.
All the athiests lists i have seen start
with false premises and are quickly refuted by athiests in detail.
Over the short - term, unfortunately, there is no assurance that investors or analysts will quickly recognize that this market is trading on the basis of
false premises about earnings and valuation (though my impression is that those who wake up based on reasoned argument and evidence will be better off than those who wake up based on investment losses).
This would free the scientists to focus on the uncertainties surrounding the science instead of wasting precious time defending themselves on
false premises as the Democrats point to global institutions endorsing the IPCC position.
Because wind power fails to deliver on its primary claim (and the wind industry's only reason for existence) the $ billions in subsidies purloined from taxpayers and power consumers have been received on an
utterly false premise.
Otherwise, we will once again fall into «groupthink» and
accept false premises and resultant delay in identifying solutions.
fm The reality is that only lawyers who are allowed to exam by leading questions ask
misleading false premise questions like that one.
So began a fundraising pitch from Inside Climate News, a investigative journalism outfit starting
from false premises to reach false conclusions.
And if someone obtains legal advice
under false premises with the intent of committing a crime, the communication is not legally protected.
Christians don't think in terms of «regimes»; that term, drawn in its classical form from Plato's dialogue called politeia, implies all sorts of
false premises about the primacy of the political.
The
second false premise is the author's claim that Argo temperature data is precise to 0.1 deg C, a really blatant misreading of the instrument's capability.
T. Luke Sherwin, co-founder and creative director of e-commerce mattress startup Casper, calls it «millions of square feet dedicated to
a false premise.»
But chances are that whatever you believe is limiting the growth of your business (or anything else in your life) is based on
a false premise, not an immutable truth.
Greenspan has long worked under
a false premise so it's not surprising that the US economy has the structural flaws that it currently has.
This includes, but isn't limited to, sites that misrepresent or conceal their country of origin or are directed at users in another country under
false premises.
For a start, the millennial brand is based on
a false premise — namely, that humanity is circling the drain.