NOUN
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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
- 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
- Reid gave Hume credit for taking Locke's premisses to their logical conclusion.
- It seems laughable to conclude from these premisses that a and b are identical to some respect.
- But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.
- Both syllogisms have the same conclusion and the same logical form, but the syllogism immediately above has false premisses.
- Ketonen's idea was to define a system of proof search: one starts from a given sequent to be derived, chooses a formula in it, and writes the premisses of a rule that can conclude the given sequent. Chores
- The criterional logic, or logic of premisses, is, of course, much the most important; and it has never yet been treated. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- But one must question the premiss of this shift in taste. The Times Literary Supplement
- Similarly if the premiss which is stated universally is affirmative. Prior Analytics
- 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.