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Example sentences for: premise

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As regular "Earthling" readers may recall, the premise of evolutionary psychology is simple: Those genetically based mental traits that, during evolution, consistently helped their possessors get genes into the next generation became part of human nature.
Your premise that affirmative action promotes or gives positions to people of color who don't deserve or are unqualified for these positions is what I find racist.
The false, glossed-over premise that bombing and negotiation are incompatible goes unchallenged.
This possibility occurred to Chatterbox a few months ago when he rented the classic French thriller The Wages of Fear , which has for its can't-lose premise the transport by truck of highly explosive material through bumpy jungle roads.
What matters is the existence of such a premise, because it validates the question it seeks to answer: What explains the Jews?