That's an erroneous premise.

In addition, a statement may be a clear expression of legislative intention, and adopted as an expression of parliamentary intention, but nevertheless be based on an erroneous premise.

To the Editor: Your Sept. 16 editorial "Leaks and the Law" rests on an erroneous premise.

Mr. Krebs's claim that the bill will "undoubtedly drive many employers to use quotas" is built entirely on his erroneous premise.

To the Editor: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Aug. 10 Op-Ed article taking me to task is deeply flawed by his erroneous premise and conclusion.

I hope they will understand that the bill cannot be fixed because it is based on an erroneous premise - namely, that publishers or distributors should be held liable for the acts of criminals.

The shock therapies in general had developed on the erroneous premise that epilepsy and schizophrenia rarely occurred in the same patient.

Mrs Müller, the question is based on an erroneous premise.

Above all, this is to be done on the quite simply erroneous premise that advertising alone is to blame for Europeans' expanding waistlines.

Further, this thesis starts with the erroneous premise that whites have accepted affirmative action.