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Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like..

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..

Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma..

Speculate :: Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori..

Ratiocination :: Ratiocination (n.) The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning..

Gatherable :: Gatherable (a.) Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises.

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.

Derivable :: Derivable (a.) That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources..

Major :: Major (a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]..

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.

Collection :: Collection (n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred..

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..

Infer :: Infer (v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence..

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

Subsumptive :: Subsumption (n.) That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism..

Reentry :: Reentry (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease..

Speculation :: Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

Demonstration :: Demonstration (n.) A course of reasoning showing that a certain result is a necessary consequence of assumed premises; -- these premises being definitions, axioms, and previously established propositions..

Premised :: Premised (imp. & p. p.) of Premis.

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