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Definition of Premise
1. Noun. A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn. "On the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
Generic synonyms: Posit, Postulate
Specialized synonyms: Major Premise, Major Premiss, Minor Premise, Minor Premiss, Subsumption, Thesis, Condition, Precondition, Stipulation, Scenario
Derivative terms: Assume, Premiss
2. Verb. Set forth beforehand, often as an explanation. "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
3. Verb. Furnish with a preface or introduction. "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
Specialized synonyms: Preamble, Prologise, Prologize, Prologuize
Generic synonyms: Say, State, Tell
Derivative terms: Introductory, Introductory, Preface
4. Verb. Take something as preexisting and given.
Definition of Premise
1. n. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. v. t. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
3. v. i. To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Definition of Premise
1. Noun. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. ¹
2. Noun. (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. ¹
3. Noun. (usually plural legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. ¹
4. Noun. (usually plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form). ¹
5. Verb. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument ¹
6. Verb. To make a premise ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Premise
1. to state in advance [v -MISED, -MISING, -MISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premise
Literary usage of Premise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drinking Water Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks by National Research Council (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S. (2006)
"The quality of potable water in premise plumbing is not ensured or monitored by
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Analogical and inductive inference alike begin with a particular premise containing
one or more instances; but the former adds a particular premise to draw ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1850)
"tained in their premise; hence, they seem to themselves to be really multiplying
truths with great facility and rapidity—only it happens that, ..."
4. The Organon, Or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle: With the Introduction of by Aristotle, Octavius Freire Owen, Porphyry (1853)
"Of Syllogisms with one premise necessary, and the other contingent in the ...
Let then, first, the terms be affirmative, and let A be neces- gent premise. ..."
5. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"The Sorites can have but one particular, and one negative, premise. ... When the
last premise is negative, and in the conclusion the subject of the first is ..."
6. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"The Valid Moods and the Reduction of Figures The first figure is of the form: —
M —P "S — M .-.s — p- To show that the minor premise is affirmative ..."
7. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"S — P To show that the minor premise is affirmative, we employ the indirect method
... Then since one premise is negative, the conclusion must be negative. ..."
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