Jeanne Shaheen

The premise of insurance is to spread the risk. It's the premise of homeowner's insurance, of car insurance, and of health insurance. It's one reason why it's important to have insurance when you're healthy, so that when you get sick, you won't go sign up just when you get sick, because that increases the cost for everyone.

American Politician

Joe Barton

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

Yair Lapid

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

Israeli Politician

Kimberly Willis Holt

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until I really know the voice of that character. It's almost as if the character is speaking to me.

American Writer

Holly Black

I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.

Nate Mendel

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

American Musician

Julia Stiles

I just thought 'Blue' was a great premise and a great set-up for conflict. I love the idea of exploring a character who's living a secret life and is going to drown in the lies she's telling.

American Actress

Naomi Wolf

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

American Author

Yorgos Lanthimos

The Lobster' is very particular, and we did need to create a very specific world with specific rules so the whole premise would work.

Greek Director

Joe Cornish

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

English Comedian

Premise in debates or reasoning always supports the main argument; it's not a random fact.

Argument Core

A premise is like a starting line in a race—it's where your thought process begins.

Starting Point

When presenting a premise, it's presented as true to build an argument, even if debatable.

Assumed True

Premise as a location refers to an exact place, often in legal or formal contexts.

Specific Location

In business, 'premise' often means the building where a company operates.

Business Context

The word 'premise' includes the inside and outside of a building or place.

Physical Space

In logic, a premise is not proven; it's a starting point that's assumed to be true.

Logical Foundation

Logical arguments are like buildings, with premises as the base upon which conclusions are made.

Argument Building

When preparing for a debate, clearly define your premises for a strong foundation.

Debate Preparation

 generally on how to help their readers find an extra hour in the day. And the idea is that we'll shave bits of time off everyday activities, add it up, and we'll have time for the good stuff. I question the entire premise of this piece, but I'm always interested in hearing what they've come up with before they call me.

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 so that those ideas will remain valuable, and people will be incentivized to come up with more ideas, and the culture will be more innovative. But I think there's a case to be made that we should spend at least as much time, if not more, valuing the premise of connecting ideas and not just protecting them.

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 it's a pretty simple premise. Get an addict, all the people in their life, gather them together, confront them with what they're doing, and they say, if you don't shape up, we're going to cut you off. So what they do is they take the connection to the addict, and they threaten it, they make it contingent

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 He knew the underlying facts, but he also knew that facts do not drive conversation online. What drives conversation online is emotion. See, the original premise of social media was that it was going to bring us all together, make the world more open and tolerant and fair And it did some of that.

Inside the bizarre world...

 We live in a three-dimensional world where everything has length, width, and height. But what if our world were two-dimensional? We would be squashed down to occupy a single plane of existence, geometrically speaking, of course. And what would that world look and feel like? This is the premise

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 They argue that it doesn't reveal anything because its premise is so unrealistic that study participants don't take it seriously. But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices

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 he made drip, or action, paintings following a similar premise, though he developed a signature technique and never looked for images or messages hidden in the works. First, he took the canvas off of the easel and laid it on the floor, a subversive act in itself.

What is abstract...

 of killing them we rather advised him to put the better burglar proving in security doors on their premises to keep them out and sunset nobody is complaining again but monkeys do get shot and they have no official protection happily one policeman is not

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 along millions of people around the world would love to not see people die or suffer unnecessarily from illnesses that they could be prevented from I live under the premise that all lives are of

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 be I'm not here to be didactic or professorial in any way it's like a funhouse I know nothing that's the premise I'm a humble student

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