hidden premise

Every symbol has hidden premises behind it," Flattery said. "

Higher taxes are the hidden premise in the otherwise incredible logic of the Labour argument.

But that, of course, carries a hidden premise: that all possible mistakes were contained in those two episodes.

But you know the unadmitted answer, refusing to acknowledge what you see, what hidden premise moves your world.

It surveys their arguments, parsing them out in numbered propositions, seeking hidden premises, insisting on ever finer distinctions and finally offering criticism and counterproposals.

The fallacy does not occur in enthymemes, where hidden premises required to make the syllogism valid assume the existence of at least one member of the class .

Inductive informal fallacies are slightly different from their deductive counterparts, because their merit rests in the inductive strength of the premise-conclusion link rather than in the presence of hidden premises.

Every symbol has hidden premises behind it.Every word carries unspoken assumptions buried in the history of the language and the conditioning experiences of the speakers.If you snatch those buried meanings out of your words, you spill a whole stream of new understanding into your awareness.

Jensen has published several books, including The Culture of Make Believe and Endgame, that question and critique civilization as an entire social system, exploring its inherent values, hidden premises, and modern links to supremacism, oppression, and genocide, as well as corporate, domestic, and worldwide ecological abuse.