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What (who) is Premise - definition

STATEMENT THAT AN ARGUMENT CLAIMS WILL INDUCE OR JUSTIFY A CONCLUSION
Premiss; Premise (mathematics); Premisses; Implicit premise

premise         
¦ noun 'pr?m?s (Brit. also premiss) Logic a previous statement from which another is inferred.
?an underlying assumption.
¦ verb pr?'m??z, 'pr?m?s
1. (premise on/upon) base (an argument, theory, etc.) on.
2. state or presuppose as a premise.
Origin
ME: from OFr. premisse, from med. L. praemissa (propositio) '(proposition) set in front', from L. praemittere, from prae 'before' + mittere 'send'.
premise         
(premises)
Note: The spelling 'premiss' is also used in British English for meaning 2.
1.
The premises of a business or an institution are all the buildings and land that it occupies in one place.
There is a kitchen on the premises...
The business moved to premises in Brompton Road.
N-PLURAL: oft on the N
2.
A premise is something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea. (FORMAL)
The premise is that schools will work harder to improve if they must compete...
= assumption
N-COUNT: oft N that
premise         
I. v. a.
Preface, lay down beforehand, state at the outset, set forth at the beginning, explain previously.
II. v. n.
Begin, enter upon the subject, open, set out.
III. n.
1.
Antecedent, proposition, ground, argument, support.
2.
[Only in pl.] Conditions, relations, facts rehearsed, circumstances.

Wikipedia

Premise

A premise or premiss is a proposition—a true or false declarative statement—used in an argument to prove the truth of another proposition called the conclusion. Arguments consist of two or more premises that imply some conclusion if the argument is sound.

An argument is meaningful for its conclusion only when all of its premises are true. If one or more premises are false, the argument says nothing about whether the conclusion is true or false. For instance, a false premise on its own does not justify rejecting an argument's conclusion; to assume otherwise is a logical fallacy called denying the antecedent. One way to prove that a proposition is false is to formulate a sound argument with a conclusion that negates that proposition.

An argument is sound and its conclusion logically follows (it is true) if and only if the argument is valid and its premises are true.

An argument is valid if and only if when the premises are all true, the conclusion must also be true. If there exists a logical interpretation where the premises are all true but the conclusion is false, the argument is invalid.

Key to evaluating the quality of an argument is determining if it is valid and sound. That is, whether its premises are true and whether their truth necessarily results in a true conclusion.

Examples of use of Premise
1. SECRETARY RICE:'4; Well, Barbara, I don‘t actually agree with the premise, so let me go back to the premise of the question.
2. SECRETARY RICE:В Well, Barbara, I dont actually agree with the premise, so let me go back to the premise of the question.
3. Hence military intervention on that premise would be a mistake.
4. The beauty of the show‘s premise is that anything goes.
5. ERELI:В I dont accept the premise of the question.