Usage of "premiss" | TermGallery

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn.

Usage of premiss in English

The major premiss in this shape is vaguer than in the former. 
 Deductive Logic 

Strategic planning of the attack in subsequent months followed from this premiss. 
 Hitler 1936 - 1945: Nemesis 

For the sovereignty of human reason this is a most dangerous premiss. 
 Shakspere and Montaigne / An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency o... 

Therefore the major term must be undistributed in the major premiss. 
 Deductive Logic 

If the major premiss were a particular negative, the conclusion would be negative. 
 Deductive Logic 

Therefore it must be distributed in the major premiss, where it is subject. 
 Deductive Logic 

Prove that wherever the minor premiss is negative, the major must be universal. 
 Deductive Logic 

Is the suppressed premiss in any case disputable on material grounds? 
 Deductive Logic 

But the major premiss, being 1, does not distribute either subject or predicate. 
 Deductive Logic 

The major premiss may be either A, E, I or O. 
 Deductive Logic 

But the first premiss is certainly the case; therefore so must the consequent be. 
 The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 

But the major term is subject in the major premiss. 
 Deductive Logic 

If the major premiss were particular, there would be illicit process of the major. 
 Deductive Logic 

Therefore the minor term is undistributed in the minor premiss, where it is predicate. 
 Deductive Logic 

But the major premiss being particular, the major term could not be distributed there. 
 Deductive Logic 

If this premiss be granted-andcertainly none will deny it-Mr. 
 Who is mark twain? 

premiss

Noun

Singular

Frequent collocations

More collocations

Translations for premiss

Portuguese

Catalan

Spanish

Premiss through the time

Premiss across language varieties

United Kingdom

Common

Meanings of premiss in English