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Premise meaning
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. | Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. | Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
Example sentences (20)
The base premise “Evil mining operation”, on paper, also is not exactly novel, so I genuinely wasn’t that excited from the premise.
It’s such a simple premise, so the challenge was to take this fun simple premise and try to build out and hopefully make a cool movie out of it.
Each premise of the argument, that is, an assumption introduced as an hypothesis of the argument, is listed at the beginning of the sequence and is marked as a "premise" in lieu of other justification.
For example, knowing that all men are mortal (major premise) and that Socrates is a man (minor premise), we may validly conclude that Socrates is mortal.
Hinduism, for example, developed its ideas with the premise that every human being has a soul (atman, self), while Buddhism developed with the premise that there is no soul or self.
The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise : "Whatever has the property of thinking, exists", a premise Descartes did not justify.
They're both storyboard-driven shows, which means they give us an outline from a premise after the premise has been approved.
This argument has been challenged with the assertion that hidden reasons premise is as plausible as the premise that God does not exist or is not "an almighty, all-knowing, all-benevolent, all-powerful".
This is because in the structure of the syllogism invoked (i.e. III-1) the middle term is not distributed in either the major premise or in the minor premise a pattern called the "fallacy of the undistributed middle".
A 2016 supernatural action series, has the bizarre premise of bringing back famed authors and poets as teenagers with supernatural powers.
Accepting this premise would open the door to allowing anyone who was even near the Capitol on that day to be barred from holding any public office for the rest of their lives.
Agatha Christie’s novel has a brilliantly simple premise, and this film makes the most of it.
A home-based kitchen looking to prepare higher-risk foods is required to meet all the requirements in the food premise regulation and does not have the same level of exemptions for home-based businesses preparing low-risk foods.
Although its reveal trailers showed gameplay and set up the general premise of Kay's story, players will hopefully find out a bit more about the parameters of Kay's heist and who she will be interacting with or betraying to achieve her goals soon.
American Horror Story season 8 has a unique premise and truly terrifying ending.
Apart from that, however, most of the premise for the new series is still under wraps.
A sequel of sorts to the technological thriller follows the same premise by having its mystery play out entirely via screens.
Aside from introducing its premise with the show's theme song, the episode begins with a quick visual history of aviation.
As interesting as the premise is, plot-driven readers should beware.
As its premise lends itself to a more scattershot and nonlinear structure, Horimiya: The Missing Pieces might seem unfocused compared to its predecessor.