Definition of premises

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Premises (pl. ) of Premis.

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Discoursive :: Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Particular :: Particular (n.) One of the details or items of grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises..
Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma..
Inconsequential :: Inconsequential (a.) Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence..
Ratiocination :: Ratiocination (n.) The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning..
Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence..
Result :: Result (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor..
Consectary :: Consectary (n.) That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible; deduction from premises; corollary.
Epichirema :: Epichirema (n.) A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner..
Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori..
Recoupe :: Recoupe (v. t.) To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction..
Paralogism :: Paralogism (n.) A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive.
Deduction :: Deduction (n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
Tippling-house :: Tippling-house (n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises..
Episyllogism :: Episyllogism (n.) A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a proposition which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism..
Syllogistic :: Syllogism (n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration.
Converse :: Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal..
Traduction :: Traduction (n.) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to.
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