Word Finder - premise

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A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.

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(usually in the plural) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, 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.

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(usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.

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trespass on another’s premises

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(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

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To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

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To make a premise.

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To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

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To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

The game was won on the premise that the home team had been out of bounds.

He accepted the employment on the premise that he would receive an annual bonus of 25%

The letter was capitalized on the premise that it was a proper noun.

If you agree with the premise, then you will see why he is being held for fraud.

But one premise can only reproduce itself in another form, e.g.

The middle term must be distributed in one premise at least, i.e.

If either premise is negative, the conclusion is negative.

It is a simple premise and yet, at the same time, an article of faith—a faith that the future would be better than the past.

Roman bricks appear in its fabric, and premise a Roman station in the vicinity.

Even so, however, it starts from a particular premise which only contains many instances, and leaves room to doubt the universality of its conclusions.

Mill thereupon supposed a still more general premise, an assumption of the uniformity of nature.

The conclusion then is really used to establish the major premise, and if we still will infer it therefrom we fall into the circular proof.'

Another important conception connected with the preceding is the infinity of philosophy, which arises out of history and is as it were a reflection from history, varying at every moment and always solving a problem by placing alongside its solution the premise of a new history and therefore of a new problem and a new philosophy.

Each inference contains three terms. In syllogistic inference the subject of the conclusion is the minor term, and its predicate the major term, while between these two extremes the term common to the two premises is the middle term, and the premise containing the middle and major terms is the major premise, the premise containing the middle and minor terms the minor premise.

Analogical and inductive inference alike begin with a particular premise containing one or more instances; but the former adds a particular premise to draw a particular conclusion, the latter requires a universal premise to draw a universal conclusion.

In point of fact, he analysed it into premises, but then analysed a premise into terms, which he divided into subject and predicate, with the addition of the copula " is " or " is not."

In rising, however, from particular to universal inference, induction, as we have seen, adds to its particular premise, S is P, a universal premise, every M is similar to S, in order to infer the universal conclusion, every M is P. This universal premise requires a universal conception of a class or whole number of similar particulars, as a condition.

In indicating specifically, too, the case of conclusion from a copulative major premise with a disjunctive minor, Herbart seems to have suggested the cue for Sigwart's exposition of Bacon's method of exclusions.

For in the latter case we possess, according to Hume, no standard of equivalence other than that supplied by immediate observation, and consequently transition from one premise to another by way of reasoning must be, in geometrical matters, a purely verbal process.

Some suppose that we may infer from one premise by a so-called " immediate inference."

But deduction, starting from a premise about all the members of a class, compels a conclusion about every and each of necessity.

Like induction, it starts from a particular premise, containing one or more examples or instances; but, as it is easier to infer a particular than a universal conclusion, it supplies particular conclusions which in their turn become further particular premises of induction.

The general idea of all men or the combination that the idea of all men is similar to the idea of particular men would not be enough; the universal premise that all men in fact are similar to those who have died is required to induce the universal conclusion that all men in fact die.

On the one hand, having reduced categorical judgments to an existential form, Brentano proposes to reform the syllogism, with the results that it must contain four terms, of which two are opposed and two appear twice; that, when it is negative, both premises are negative; and that, when it is affirmative, one premise, at least, is negative.

As we see from Lotze's own defence, the conclusion cannot be drawn without another premise or premises to the effect that " S, Q, R, are /, and is the one real subject of M."

Reduction he defines as " the framing of possible premises for given propositions, or the construction of a syllogism when the conclusion and one premise is given."

It is important to acknowledge the centrality of the central premise of this book.

The premise of the game is one of rescue and revenge within the seedy Japanese underworld run by the Yakuza.

The Eco Tote was based on a simple premise.

Here the minor being the infinite term " not-recognized " in the conclusion, must be the same term also in the minor premise.

Thus Whewell mistook Kepler's inference that Mars moves in an ellipse for an induction, though it required the combination of Tycho's and Kepler's observations, as a minor, with the laws of conic sections discovered by the Greeks, as a major, premise.

In brief, the solution depends upon the view we take of the major premise, "all men are mortal."

If, however, we take the true view of the major premise, namely, that it is not a mere summary of observed particulars but the enunciation of a necessary connexion between two concepts or universals, then the conclusion assumes a different character.

Resolution of the sorites into its constituent elements gives the rules (a) that no premise except the first may be particular and (/3) that no premise except the last may be negative.

If we are to mount an effective critique of CEF it has to be from a strongly different premise.

However anyone who is interested in the premise of foamy custard will want to read the whole book.

Of his premise by heinrich hertz contained similar findings of the royal.

Continually repeating the major premise with prophetic fervor will not demonstrate the truth of the minor premise.

The premise of it is his bah mitzvah happened on the 1966 World Cup Final day, so no one came.

Not only does mainstream research on high altitude physiology support this premise, but we have experienced it ourselves.

In the early 70's I purchased JM's album Bless The Weather solely on the premise of the wonderfully poetic cover art.

The filters in the splitter also isolate the ADSL transceiver from the customer premise copper wiring.

The premise behind using an herbal treatment for pets is that healing starts on the inside, and what you feed your pet on a daily basis may be doing more harm than good.

No matter how general or precise the program, the basic premise is the same.

This is all based on the premise, from nature's standpoint, that healthy skin is a relatively good indicator that a woman is fertile and will bear healthy children.

Online Ouija board games are based on the same premise as the board game with the same name.

Creative Memories is based on a direct selling premise, where consultants provide in-home demonstrations of products.

Bulimia is based on the premise of binge and purge.

Fundraising should start with a premise of the end goal, such as a dollar amount or outcome.

The point is that heating foods destroys enzymes, and therein lies the premise behind the raw food diet.