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premise
[ prem-is ]
noun
- Also premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
Synonyms: postulate, assumption
- premises,
- a tract of land including its buildings.
- a building together with its grounds or other appurtenances.
- the property forming the subject of a conveyance or bequest.
- Law.
- a basis, stated or assumed, on which reasoning proceeds.
- an earlier statement in a document.
- (in a bill in equity) the statement of facts upon which the complaint is based.
verb (used with object)
- to set forth beforehand, as by way of introduction or explanation.
- to assume, either explicitly or implicitly, (a proposition) as a premise for a conclusion.
Synonyms: hypothesize, postulate
verb (used without object)
- to state or assume a premise.
premise
noun
- Alsopremiss logic a statement that is assumed to be true for the purpose of an argument from which a conclusion is drawn
verb
- when tr, may take a clause as object to state or assume (a proposition) as a premise in an argument, theory, etc
Other Words From
- re·premise verb repremised repremising
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of premise1
Example Sentences
Somehow, an intriguing premise and two dynamic performers aren’t enough to save this movie from its almost unbearable tediousness.
The reason they do that is because they feel that they have a better opportunity to intimidate people on their way to a vote if it’s conducted at their own premises.
The premise was these household brands would subsidize my groceries in exchange for real-time data on the buying habits of shoppers like me.
The company had pre-pandemic plans to build five to 10 more, but Covid-19 proved to be a mass blow for a retail store chain built on the premise of offering a space for children to play in-person around purchasable toys.
Also included in RISE is support for more than 2,200 APIs to integrate various on-premises, cloud and non-SAP systems, access to SAP’s low-code and no-code capabilities and, of course, its database and analytics offerings.
ThinkProgress calls the premise “uncomfortable and vaguely sad.”
The premise was simple: satire is devastating against tyrants.
The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.
But its premise—that jazz artists take themselves far too seriously—would get repeated again and again in subsequent days.
The only thing more horrifying than the premise of this video is the resolution.
He based this plan upon the premise that democracy would be more successful if greater numbers of individuals were educated.
Aristotle reasoned without sufficient certainty of the major premise of his syllogisms.
Minor premise: Socrates is a man, including an individual in the general class.
The major term is usually the predicate of the major premise and the predicate of the conclusion.
If the major premise of this syllogism be granted, the conclusion is unquestionable.
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