In those circumstances, Mr. Elman wrote a brief that tackled the legal and factual premises of segregation head on.

Macmillan canceled Mr. Chandler's book, it said, because of challenges raised about its "factual premises."

Not only is it hard to be sympathetic to her position, but the factual premise of her essay is wrong.

Further factual premises about such things as the psychology of learning and methods of teaching; and 5.

In a statement, the bank said, "Mr. Lewis's action is wholly arbitrary, based on demonstrably incorrect factual premises, and is otherwise unfair."

Some, however, have held that the factual premises are simply false.

But asking bureaucrats to try to separate out the factual premises of decisions from the ethical premises which are properly the reserve of politicians is still desirable.

Some specific factual premises of the critique as phrased above (especially on the macroeconomic side) are not accepted by defenders, or indeed all critics, of the Washington Consensus.

That includes *arguments* about moral, political and environmental issues, but not the factual premises on which those arguments have to rest.

Finally, I would take issue with Professor Levin's identification of the "tacit factual premise" of the affirmative-action argument: "that black underachievement is caused by white oppression."