The rationale for this policy
rests on a false premise, the presumption of scarcity: that there aren't enough minority students who meet traditional qualifications.
With less qualified purchasers in the game, prices will stop appreciating in order to keep up with the government controlled / inspired demand, a demand that is
created on a false premise.
(This section is actually
based on a false premise... skip past the plots and code to the next «Update» for more information).
Thanks for this, Brian — you point out succinctly the main problem with «objective» journalism — it's based
on a false premise of «fairness» that gives credence and intellectual traction to ideas that have, whether through science or statistical research, been debunked.
Steve Richard's observations on this intervention in this morning's Independent: «The Tory backbencher Edward Leigh intervened during Hague's speech, suggesting that the Conservatives only voted for the war because they had been sold the
case on a false premise.
Florida's A-F Accountability / school grades are based
on a false premise since school grades almost always reflect zip code status
If an issue based on sound science conclusions has irrefutable merit, it would not have the fatal appearance of being based
on a false premise from its inception, a foregone conclusion of it as a settled science in need of action to solve it and adapt to it.
Bike Lanes in Toronto Turn Into Phoney «War on Cars» Motorists Versus Cyclists: A False War Based
on a False Premise The War on Cyclists and Pedestrians is Getting Ugly
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.
For a start, the millennial brand is based
on a false premise — namely, that humanity is circling the drain.
The idea that central banks shouldn't surprise markets is based
on a false premise, namely that market volatility should be avoided.
Warren Buffett has written that the distinction between «growth» and «value» is based
on a false premise.
Your question is based
on a false premise.
Religion provides no solutions to problems of human nature or anything else because religion is based
on a false premise to begin with, that is a false belief in the existence of supernatural beings with power over us and the physical universe.
As modern knowledge advances and hitherto insoluble problems are solved, a good deal of religion will be seen to be based
on false premises, to be inadequate for modern conceptions of the universe, or to be little more than a collection of superstitious taboos.
Anything based
on a false premise can lead to anything.
it's a vacuous empty argument based
on a false premise.
However, an argument that is based
on a false premise is not able to be used to draw any conclusion of value.
Especially if, as I suspect, they're going to be mostly based
on false premises.
To Alex: Your question is unanswerable because it is based
on false premises.
Perhaps more important, the entire opinion is based
on a false premise (God did it).
U begin your faith based
on a false premise.
If there was no redeemer, then Christianity is based
on a false premise.
In any case your question is based
on a false premise, that politicians run for office in order to pull down modest politician salaries.
Heather Smith, the group's executive director, calls it a policy based
on the false premise that welfare recipients use drugs more than other sectors of society.
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