PREMISE


Meaning of PREMISE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

basic

The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else.

This basic premise also dictated Edward's policy elsewhere.

The basic premise of this approach is so startlingly simple that it is rather difficult to explain how damaging it actually is.

The basic premise of spiritual direction is that in order to grow we need each other.

Assertiveness Training Assertiveness skills start from a basic premise - that we all have certain rights.

central

Freire's central premise is that education is not neutral.

After all, this has been a central premise of this chapter.

false

Fortunately, it is based on a false premise .

■ VERB

accept

Though I was in no danger of accepting his premise , the effect of his tirade was impressive.

I have come to accept Joe AliTs premise that not a single species is unaffected by the rot taking place.

based

The model of the post-heroic leader that we discussed earlier is certainly based upon the premise that individuals will respond to encouragement.

Shamanism is based on the premise that neither 227 human beings nor nature itself hold the ultimate power in the universe.

Process or expectancy theories of motivation are based on the premise that people are motivated by the expected outcomes of their actions.

The present research is based on the premise that family style of emotional expression is a key factor in this respect.

His entire professional career had been based on that premise .

This ongoing professional development is based on the fundamental premise that solutions and strategies lie in teachers' own expertise and experience.

Fortunately, it is based on a false premise .

Art-marketing is based on this premise .

start

He starts with the premise that, in many activities, safety is impossible.

I started with a premise that was open to finding a little, a bit more or some very bad stuff.

This section too starts with a premise , which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.

Statement C starts from the same premise , but is an even more explicit version of a teleology of the oppressed.

Worse, C3 tends to start from the premise that original convictions were correct.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be premised on/upon sth

However, this is premised upon a notion of their independence.

It was premised on a qualitative shift in the intellectual organization of medical concepts.

This is premised on modern of visual communication which draw upon linguistics and, in particular, psychoanalysis.

Traditional economic analysis is premised on the assumption that more is better.

Ullman's work is premised on the phenomenological fact that human beings can experience apparent movement in several different ways.

Where modernist consumption was premised on mass forms, postmodernist consumption is premised on niches.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

American justice works on the premise that an accused person is innocent until they are proved guilty.

I believe his whole argument is based on a false premise .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But so far, the first two episodes have been bogged down with setting up the premise and too many location scenes.

The basic premise is that they think they know better than anyone else.

The first premise is that humans are wanting animals whose needs depend on what they already have.

The important thing is the premise , the theoretical first step.

The Prime Minister I agree with the premise underlying my hon. Friend's question.

The underlying premise of the global market ideology is that every country will earn most of its income from exports.

This section too starts with a premise , which is that individual pupils are active participants in their own education.

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