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Definition of Premisses
1. premiss [n] - See also: premiss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premisses
Literary usage of Premisses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"Such an inference as Pittacus is good, Pittacus is wise, Therefore all wise men
are good, is faulty, because the premisses do not contain " all wise men. ..."
2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... made, or paid to Vs, our Heires or Successors, as in and by the said recited
Indenture more at large maie appeare. and premisses, or any Parte thereof; ..."
3. Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1873)
"Inasmuch as the truth in the conclusion is parcel of the truth in the premisses,
there is not a progression to a consequent really distinct from the ..."
4. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"And so this cannot be made an Exception by itself will warrant the premisses of
the Plea, the Plea is good enough, p '9> distinct from the Matter in Law, ..."
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