premise
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prem·ise
(prĕm'ĭs) 
n. also prem·iss (prĕm'ĭs)
v., -ised, -is·ing, -is·es. v.tr.
To make a premise.
n. also prem·iss (prĕm'ĭs)
- A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
- Logic.
- One of the propositions in a deductive argument.
- Either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
- premises Law. The preliminary or explanatory statements or facts of a document, as in a deed.
- premises
- Land and the buildings on it.
- A building or part of a building.
v., -ised, -is·ing, -is·es. v.tr.
- To state in advance as an introduction or explanation.
- To state or assume as a proposition in an argument.
To make a premise.
[Middle English premisse, from Old French, from Medieval Latin praemissa (propositiō), (the proposition) put before, premise, from Latin, feminine past participle of praemittere, to set in front : prae-, pre- + mittere, to send.]
WORD HISTORY Why do we call a single building the premises? To answer this question, we must go back to the Middle Ages. But first, let it be noted that premises comes from the past participle praemissa, which is both a feminine singular and a neuter plural form of the Latin verb praemittere, "to send in advance, utter by way of preface, place in front, prefix." In Medieval Latin the feminine form praemissa was used as a term in logic, for which we still use the term premise descended from the Medieval Latin word (first recorded in a work composed before 1380). Medieval Latin praemissa in the plural meant "things mentioned before" and was used in legal documents, almost always in the plural, a use that was followed in Old French and Middle English, both of which borrowed the word from Latin. A more specific legal sense in Middle English, "that property, collectively, which is specified in the beginning of a legal document and which is conveyed, as by grant," was also always in the plural in Middle English and later Modern English. And so it remained when this sense was extended to mean "a house or building with its grounds or appurtenances," a usage first recorded before 1730.
Fowler's Modern English Usage:
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premise, premiss
A premiss (usually pronounced prem-is) or (rarely) premise is a previous statement from which another is inferred; the plural is premisses or premises. In the plural, premises also means 'a house or building with its grounds'. As a verb, premise (pronounced like the noun or to rhyme with surmise) means either 'to say or write by way of introduction' or 'to assume from a premiss'.
| premier, premature, prejudice | |
| première, prepared to, preposition |
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premise
noun
- Something taken to be true without proof: assumption, postulate, postulation, presupposition, supposition, theory, thesis. See reason/unreason.
verb
- To take for granted without proof: assume, posit, postulate, presume, presuppose, suppose. Informal reckon. See belief/unbelief.
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premise
n
Definition: hypothesis, argument
Antonyms: fact, reality, truth
v
Definition: hypothesize
Antonyms: be factual
Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy:
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premise
(or premiss) A premise of an argument is one of the propositions from which together the conclusion is derived. A suppressed premise is one that is in fact necessary for the conclusion to follow, but is not explicitly stated.
Saunders Veterinary Dictionary:
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premises
A building or part of a building, including land and other appurtenances, especially mechanical services.
- veterinary p. — does not define whether the accommodation is classified as a hospital, or a clinic, or is less than those and does not fit any special criteria. Does indicate that the premises are used for veterinary purposes, e.g. branch premises indicates that the premises are used for veterinary work but is serviced from a main clinic at a distance and is not manned for sufficiently long periods each day to qualify as a branch practice.
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categories related to 'premise'
- Logic - premise: general statement used as basis for argument and to support conclusion
- Reason and Rationale - premise: something assumed as basis for argument or position
- Order, Hierarchy, and Systems - premise: proposition previously proved or assumed; basis for argument
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Premise
This article is about the useage of premise in discourse and logic. For other uses, see Premise (disambiguation).
A premise is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion.[1] In other words: a premise is an assumption that something is true. In logic, an argument requires a set of two declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion. This structure of two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure. More complex arguments can utilize a series of rules to connect several premises to one conclusion, or to derive a number of conclusions from the original premises which then act as premises for additional conclusions. An example of this is the use of the rules of inference found within symbolic logic.
Aristotle held that any logical argument could be reduced to two premises and a conclusion.[2] Premises are sometimes left unstated in which case they are called missing premises, for example:
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- Socrates is mortal, since all men are mortal.
It is evident that a tacitly understood claim is that Socrates is a man. The fully expressed reasoning is thus:
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- Since all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, Socrates is mortal.
In this example, the independent clauses preceding the comma (namely, "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man") are the premises, while "Socrates is mortal" is the conclusion.
The proof of a conclusion depends on both the truth of the premises and the validity of the argument.
References
- ^ "Argument: a sequence of statements such that some of them (the premises) purport to give reasons to accept another of them, the conclusion" : The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd Edition (Cambridge University Press), editor Robert Audi, 43.
- ^ p216, Jan Gullberg, Mathematics from the birth of numbers, W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04002-X ISBN 978-0393040029
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Premise
Dansk (Danish)
n. - forudsætning
v. tr. - forudskikke, forudsætte
v. intr. - gøre noget til en forudsætning
idioms:
- on the premises på stedet
Nederlands (Dutch)
vooronderstelling, voorgenoemde zaken, terrein met gebouw(en), postuleren
Français (French)
n. - prémisse, locaux (npl), lieux (npl)
v. tr. - poser en prémisse, poser en principe
v. intr. - poser en prémisse, citer en guise d'introduction
idioms:
- on the premises dans les locaux, sur place
Deutsch (German)
n. - Gebäude, Gelände, Prämisse
v. - voraussetzen, einleitend sagen od. schreiben
idioms:
- on the premises an Ort und Stelle
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προϋπόθεση, βάση συλλογισμού, πρόταση συλλογισμού, προκειμένη, (νομ.) εισαγωγικό μέρος συμφωνητικού κ.λπ., (πληθ.) κατάστημα, κτήριο
v. - προτάσσω, ορίζω ως αρχή, βάση ή προϋπόθεση
idioms:
- on the premises επί τόπου, στο κατάστημα
Italiano (Italian)
immobile, premessa, stabile
idioms:
- on the premises nello stabile
Português (Portuguese)
n. - premissa (f), local (m)
v. - estabelecer premissas
idioms:
- on the premises nas instalações, no local
Русский (Russian)
предпосылка, помещение
idioms:
- on the premises в помещении
Español (Spanish)
n. - premisa, local
v. tr. - sentar, establecer como premisas, suponer preexistente, exponer como una introducción
v. intr. - sentar, establecer como premisas
idioms:
- on the premises en el local, en el sitio
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - antagande, premiss, fastighet, lokal, inledning (jur.)
v. - nämna först, inleda
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
前提, 房屋连地基, 提论, 假定, 预述, 作出前提
idioms:
- on the premises 在房屋内, 在场所内
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 前提, 房屋連地基
v. tr. - 提論, 假定, 預述
v. intr. - 作出前提
idioms:
- on the premises 在房屋內, 在場所內
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 전제
v. tr. - 허두를 놓다
v. intr. - 전제로 말하다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 前提, 根拠, 家屋敷, 構内, 既述事項
v. - 前提として述べる
idioms:
- on the premises 前提として
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مقدمه, قياس, , عقار (فعل) يفترض مقدمه منطقيه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - הנחת יסוד, משרדים, שטח, חצר, הנחה, חצרים, בניינים, חלקו הראשון של הסכם
v. tr. - הניח הנחה, הציג בפני, ביסס על
v. intr. - הניח או השמיע הנחה
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