The novel proceeds from the counter-factual premise that the Slattery Report had actually been implemented.
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"The factual premise that Dean Thiemann's resignation was the product of an intrustion on his privacy initiated by university staff members is incorrect, " said Harvard spokesman Joseph Wrinn.
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The justice in charge of the case ruled that the paper had acted in the public interest, and that the particular article expressed " legitimate concerns and constitute an opinion which is drawn from a factual premise ".
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"While they camouflaged the critical differences with broad-brush appeals to ` consumer rights,'they were in fact never in any doubt that this purported justification for their otherwise obvious copyright infringement rested on a doubtful factual premise, " the judge said.
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Pro-recall organizers filed a rebuttal in response, arguing that Kapanke's argument " proceeds from a false factual premise ", noting that Scheller was simply a representative of the recall committee, as " a committee can neither be an elector or hold a pen ."
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In arguing that the C . D . A . does not so diminish adult communication, the Government relies on the incorrect factual premise that prohibiting a transmission whenever it is known that one of its recipients is a minor would not interfere with adult-to-adult communication.
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They further argued that if one combines Thornhill and Palmer's factual premise that rape increases the fitness of a woman's offspring with the ethical premise that it is right to increase fitness of offspring, the resulting deductively valid conclusion is that rape has also positive effects and that its ethical status is ambiguous.
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They further argue that if one combines Thornhill and Palmer's factual premise that rape increases the fitness of a woman's offspring with the ethical premise that it is right to increase fitness of offspring, the resulting deductively valid conclusion is that rape has also positive effects and that its ethical status is ambiguous.
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We write today to bring to the committee's attention a critical flaw in the referral _ a flaw that we believe calls into question the fairness of the entire process underlying the referral and should lead the members, at the very least, to question the factual premise on which it rests and the legal conclusions it draws.
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"Central to Michael Schiavo's claim, and the circuit court decisions, is the factual premise that denying food and fluids to Terri is simply a matter of effectuating her wishes, " the Schindlers said in the brief . " This premise, even taken on its own terms, suffers from a gaping logical hole : Terri has the right to change her mind ."