Premises Quotes

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But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. — Nick Hornby
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart… — PZ Myers
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism,… — Oliver Goldsmith
The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to… — Albert J. Nock
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are… — Carlo Rovelli
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things… — Dion Fortune
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles. — Aristotle
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking… — Alfred North Whitehead
When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises — Nathaniel Branden
Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood… — Eva Burrows
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is… — Ayn Rand
Sunstein said government agents â€˜might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts… — Cass Sunstein
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately,… — Zeena Schreck
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its… — Jacques Monod
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in… — Ayn Rand
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in… — William H. Seward
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. — Ayn Rand
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source… — Peter Schwartz

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