| 单词 | premiss |
| 释义 | premiss (once / 6876 pages) nv WORD FAMILY premiss: premisses, premissing USAGE EXAMPLESGrant this premiss, and what follows, or something better, may easily be rendered an accomplished fact. Various, The Contemporary Review, Volume 36,...(2012) But like all “major premisses” in practice, everything depends on the power of judgment, the tact, the skill, the “gift” of applying them. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind(2012) Founded, as I venture to think, on entirely false premisses, their conclusions almost invariably are altogether wrong. Burgon, John William, The Traditional Text of the Holy Go...(2012) 1n a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn Syn|Hypo|Hyper assumption, premise major premise, major premiss the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) minor premise, minor premiss, subsumptionthe premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) thesisan unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument condition, precondition, stipulationan assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else scenarioa postulated sequence of possible events boundary condition(mathematics) a condition specified for the solution to a set of differential equations provision, provisoa stipulated condition posit, postulate (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning 2v take something as preexisting and given Syn|Hyper premise presuppose, suppose take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand |
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