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premiss

NOUN
  1. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
    on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play
VERB
  1. take something as preexisting and given

How To Use premiss In A Sentence

  • So the kind of conceivability invoked in premisses (1) and (2) needs to be strongly constrained. Zombies
  • Sendo a Wikipédia um esforço colaborativo, argumenta Lanier que a sua premissa mais básica - o esforço combinado de muitos para o bem de todos - pouco difere das colectivizações soviéticas ou nacional-socialistas. Leituras
  • It is a slightly weary metafictional premiss, and the novel risks becoming wrapped up in dated postmodernist shadowplay. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The premiss of the game, and thus of the book, is about regaining control. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The 3D motion parameter measurement of a rocket motor nozzle is a premiss for accurately controlling the nozzle, and the calibration equipment is the key to ensure motion testing at a high precision.
  • If then syllogisms are taken with respect to their main premisses, every syllogism will consist of an even number of premisses and an odd number of terms (for the terms exceed the premisses by one), and the conclusions will be half the number of the premisses. Prior Analytics
  • Snytterfeld predicta gentilman et Johannem Porter de eadem meos veros et legitimos Attornatos conjunctim et divisim ad intrandum vice et nomine meo in predictum mesuagium cum omnibus et singulis premissis et pertinenciis suis quibuscunque et ad plenam et pacificam seisinam pro me ac vice et nomine meo inde capiendam et postquam hujusmodi seisina dicta capta fuerit ad deliberandam pro me ac vice et nomine meo prefatis Shakespeare's Family
  • The premiss is as banal as it sounds. The Times Literary Supplement
  • An argument, then, of this kind is the most incisive, viz. the one that puts its conclusion on all fours with the propositions asked; and second comes the one that argues from premisses, all of which are equally convincing: for this will produce an equal perplexity as to what kind of premiss, of those asked, one should demolish. On Sophistical Refutations
  • Indeed, there exists an equally strong, and in this context often contradictory, philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.
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