Sentences with phrase «major premise»

But Splash was sure his unarticulated major premise was still right, although sportswise, at least, his spreading waistline, balding pate and pallid hide were slowly but surely eroding its credence.

Snyder, of course, is asking a false question, one with an unstated major premise that is wrong, or at least misleading.

Though they disagree on whether God exists, premoderns and postmoderns share the major premise that knowing requires His existence.

It is probably quite impossible to explain the Christian attitude to the thoroughgoing materialist, simply because the major premise which makes the whole position tenable and satisfactory is God, and the materialist denies such a person's existence.

Major Premise: Whoever believes in Christ is saved.

Major premise: Christ told me, «I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

The knowledge of this possibility and the acceptance of this goal constitute the major premises for educational policy.

furthermore... «beyond question, the major premise of Nietzsche's philosophy is atheism.»

Major premise: Sexual attraction and love are determinants of human happiness and should be consummated where sincerely felt.

Rather than solve the historical problem, Banning wishes to challenge its major premise.

That, at least, is one of the major premises that form the basis for a new endeavor, the study of the healing influence of pets.

The survey's major premise is that a person answering in the affirmative to six of the eleven questions is an anti-Semite.

This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables, and it is the point where Jesus differs most profoundly from the outlook of the Jewish apocalyptists, with whose ideas He had on some sides much sympathy.

A major premise of Anselm's theory is dislocated by this objection.

If the time comes, and it has, when men are either uninterested in those major premises of universal and general truth (i.e., «all men are unrighteous») or they question the authority of their source (i.e., church or scripture), then those whose mission it is to convince others must go into the marketplace prepared to reason inductively.

Many who are more comfortable with deduction's tightly - woven syllogisms often forget that their major premise was arrived at inductively or was taken for truth by virtue of the authority of its source.

This self attends first to the major premise, then the minor premise, and finally, draws the conclusion by holding the two premises together and seeing their connection.

He proposes that if they were both reduced to «syllogistic form, one would realise that both start with the same «major premise», namely from this principle: things have an essential nature only in so far as they are fashioned by thought».

As a conservative Christian, I totally support the healthcare reform on two major premises 1).

One of the major premises of saving moving is using what you have, and a lot of people around now have a LOT of zucchini.

Wolfe apparently doesn't seem to care that his major premise is based on two papers that assert that language did in fact evolve.

The major premise probably does not make all that sense but makes for an enthralling and entertaining case.

The major premise asks the question, can you escape your past?

A major premise of ESR is that teachers learn to model the behavior they teach through direct instruction, and schools assume the values they seek to nurture among young people in all facets of their program.

• Only 19 % supports the federal government holding schools accountable for what students learn, a major premise underlying both the Bush and Obama education policies.

A major premise throughout the book is that it is not the tool, quality, timing, or intent, but it is how the assessment is used that makes the largest impact.

I have been working with a small school districts on vocabulary instruction and your presentation synthesizes the major premises of vocab instruction.

The major premise of this project is that teachers learn from the act of teaching a lesson.

The Common Core has as its major premise that those standards will insure that students are «college and career ready» and that having all of our students «college and career ready» will then make the United States secure as an economic powerhouse.

I believe that any objective analyst of this budget would have to conclude that this budget was constructed by people who have consistently rejected every major premise on which the founding fathers constructed their image of our «city on a hill.»

Now I'm not entirely sure how this would be accomplished since a major premise most are working with is that comic pacing needs to be controlled by the reader... otherwise you have a weird movie / animation / slideshow hybrid.

The exhibition curated by Moacir dos Anjos, marks the beginning of a more comprehensive and lasting research, even though its major premises are already presented here.

The massive size of the sphinx - like Domino sugar mammy figure makes a strong first impression, and the fact that sugar was produced and harvested primarily by African slaves is a major premise that aligns A Subtlety with Walker's earlier work: many black lives were lost turning sugarcane into a fine confection for the pleasures and delights of a privileged white elite.

Not only is the major premise of the animation false (trend does not determine future value or trend — all trends by nature refer to the past and may not refer to the future) but the intended climate message is, if not strictly false, biased and misleading.

perhaps, other than oncoming «hard knocks,» the major premise of the above paragraph is completely faulty and merely wishful thinking.

Indeed this is a major premise of science fiction stories about terraforming Mars; an excellent example is Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.

In any event, neither Hayek nor Rawls could argue their case for «social justice» in particular cases using deductive or inductive logic because the major premise of their arguments — the meaning of the term «social justice» — isn't sufficiently accepted.

More importantly, however, these if - then rules form the major premise of a conditional syllogism.