Premise:
"And yet, despite the flocks of familiar French automobiles with yellow headlights, the francs and centimes, the gendarmes, cafes, and just-like-Paris little shops, you'll sense immediately that this is not, nor could it ever be, metropolitan France."
Hypothesis: The place looks, smells and feels like France because it is France.

no

Premise:
"Usually, as you know, the choice of topic is fairly obvious."
Hypothesis: The choice of the topic is never obvious, you know it.

no

Premise:
"She's in her 20s."
Hypothesis: She is in her second decade.
yes