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Premiss

noun
1.
A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn.  Synonyms: assumption, premise.



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"Premiss" Quotes from Famous Books



... laws are samples of self-evident logical principles, but are not really more fundamental or more self-evident than various other similar principles: for instance, the one we considered just now, which states that what follows from a true premiss is true. The name 'laws of thought' is also misleading, for what is important is not the fact that we think in accordance with these laws, but the fact that things behave in accordance with them; in other words, the fact that when we think in accordance with them we think truly. But this is ...
— The Problems of Philosophy • Bertrand Russell



Words linked to "Premiss" :   assumption, suppose, subsumption, precondition, premise, minor premise, major premise, posit, stipulation, postulate, minor premiss, condition, scenario, presuppose, thesis



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