Definition of premise

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of premise is as below...

Premise (n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings..

Lern More About Premise

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..
Discoursive :: Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
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.
Premises :: Premises (pl. ) of Premis.
Premise :: Premise (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Premised :: Premised (imp. & p. p.) of Premis.
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause..
Concludency :: Concludency (n.) Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion.
Give :: Give (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given..
Watchdog :: Watchdog (n.) A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders..
Premise :: Premise (n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously..
Deductive :: Deductive (a.) Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
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..
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..
Distribute :: Distribute (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
Whence :: Whence (adv.) From what place; hence, from what or which source, origin, antecedent, premise, or the like; how; -- used interrogatively..
Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like..
Premise :: Premise (n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn..
Reason :: Reason (n.) To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us