Word Finder - premiss

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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.

In analysing the syllogism, he first says that a premiss is an affirmative or negative sentence, and then that a term is that into which a premiss is dissolved, i.e.

In the syllogism " Every man is mortal and Socrates is a man," if in the minor premiss the copula " is " were not disengaged from the predicate " man," there would not be one middle term " man " in the two premisses.

I start from the premiss that subjectivity always precedes objectivity.

The crucial premiss of this argument is thus that sameness of truth-conditions entails sameness of ontological commitment.

In the first stanza, Gunn briefly introduces the general premiss of the poem, which is fully developed in the fourth stanza.

It will suffice to mention here that Peano's fourth premiss of arithmetic does not hold for infinite cardinals or for infinite ordinals.