premiss

Meanings

• A proposition that serves as a starting point for an argument or a logical investigation.

  - "Example 1: The premiss for this logical investigation is that all humans are mortal."
  - "Example 2: The premiss for this argument is that smoking causes cancer."

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Rhymes

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premonition , preemption , promotion

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Homophones

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1. premises (n)
   

2. premises (v)
   

3. premises (adj)
   

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Variants

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premise , premises , premiss , premisses

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Forms

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premiss (n), premiss (v), premiss (adj)

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Etymology

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The word 'premiss' comes from the Latin word 'praemissus', which means 'something sent forth or advanced beforehand'.

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Related Concepts

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1. hypothesis: A proposed explanation for a phenomenon or a set of observations that is testable and falsifiable.

2. assumption: A statement or a proposition that is accepted as true without proof or evidence. An assumption is a starting point or a foundation upon which further reasoning or investigation is built.

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Quotes

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1. Called behavioral ecology, it starts from the "premise" that social and environmental forces select for various behaviors that optimize people's fitness in a given environment. Different environment, different behaviors—and different human "natures."

   - Sharon Begley,{it}Newsweek{/it},29 June 2009

2. Thirty years ago the modesty of the general expectation was still consistent with the original American "premise" of self-government.

   - Lewis H. Lapham,{it}Harper's{/it},November 1992

3. Although the Voting Rights Act served, in some measure, to formalize the notion of racial representation, its consequences undermined its "premise"—that a transparency of interests existed between the representative and the represented.

   - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,{it}New Yorker{/it},24 Oct. 1994

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Culture

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The term 'premiss' has been used extensively in various fields of human endeavor. In literature, it is often used as the starting point or the foundation upon which the plot or the narrative is built. In philosophy, it is used to denote a proposition that serves as a starting point for an argument or a logical investigation. In mathematics, it is used to denote a given statement or a hypothesis that is assumed to be true for the purpose of deriving logical conclusions or solving mathematical problems. In science, it is used to denote a hypothesis or a proposed explanation for a phenomenon or a set of observations that is assumed to be true until it is disproved by further evidence or experiments.

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