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PREMISS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

Example:

on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play

Synonyms:

assumption; premise; premiss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("premiss" is a kind of...):

posit; postulate ((logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "premiss"):

major premise; major premiss (the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion))

minor premise; minor premiss; subsumption (the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion))

thesis (an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument)

condition; precondition; stipulation (an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else)

scenario (a postulated sequence of possible events)

Derivation:

premiss (take something as preexisting and given)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take something as preexisting and given

Synonyms:

premise; premiss

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "premiss" is one way to...):

presuppose; suppose (take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

premiss (a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn)

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