Grounds
Grounds noun - Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.
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Idea
Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.
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Tear dismisses the idea on the grounds that she is a fairy, when the human and fairy pair in Chantelise really were sisters.
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Played straight in the final episode, however, in which each writer's idea would be dismissed by the other on grounds that it had already been done.
Source: It's Been Done - Jerry likes the idea of the Monster in a blazer, on the grounds that he shows he at least makes an effort to make himself presentable.
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