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Premise

noun

(pl. premises) (Written also, less properly, premiss)

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

verb

(past & past part. premised; pres. part. premising)

Set forth beforehand, often as an explanation.

Furnish with a preface or introduction. Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface. "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"

Take something as preexisting and given. Synonym: premiss.

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"Premise" Quotes from Famous Books

... is, as I understand it, either the major or the minor premise, it is true, that "all that is sweet is pleasant," it is true also, that "this is sweet," what is contrary to Right Reason is the bringing in this minor to the major i.e. the universal maxim, forbidding to taste. Thus, ...

— Ethics • Aristotle

... first place, then, I must premise that the name of Ditton-in-the-Dale is in a great measure a misnomer, as the house and estate which bear that name, are situated on what a visiter would be at first inclined to call a dead level, but on what is in truth a small secondary ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various

... demand for a lofty morality as the natural; and that biology would be equally false and dangerous which should in the least encourage the view that "without holiness" a man could "see the Lord." These questions accordingly we must briefly consider. It is necessary to premise, however, that the difficulty is not peculiar to the present position. This is simply the old difficulty of distinguishing ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... to give you an account of our last cruise in the Phoenix; and must premise, that should any one see it besides yourself, they must put this construction on it—that it was originally intended for the eyes of a mother, and a mother only—as, upon that supposition, my feelings may ...

— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous

... existence of substance as its essence is an eternal truth. And we can hence conclude by another process of reasoning—that there is but one such substance. I think that this may profitably be done at once; and, in order to proceed regularly with the demonstration, we must premise:— ...

— Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata - Part I: Concerning God • Benedict de Spinoza

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