premiss

The premiss of the argument was flawed.

It is important to establish a solid premiss before making any decisions.

The conclusion does not follow logically from the premisses.

The premisses of the research study were carefully chosen.

The premisses upon which the theory is based are questionable.

The premiss that all humans are inherently good is debatable.

Without a valid premiss, the argument falls apart.

The premisses need to be clearly stated at the beginning of the presentation.

The premisses of the contract were agreed upon by both parties.

It is essential to critically evaluate the premisses of any scientific theory.

" Cogito, ergo sum" would be regarded by most people as having a true premiss.

Thus, though wrong in her premisses, Viviette had intuitively decided with sad precision.

If any one asks: 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses'?

We may say: 'Derivative knowledge is what is validly deduced from premisses known intuitively'.

This, however, is a circular definition: it assumes that we already know what is meant by 'known premisses'.

Thus we shall have to amend our definition by saying that knowledge is what is validly deduced from known premisses.

Contemporary economists, who might hesitate to agree with Mill, do not hesitate to accept conclusions which require Mill's doctrine as their premiss.

In the first place, it is too wide, because it is not enough that our premisses should be true, they must also be known.

The inductive principle has less self-evidence than some of the other principles of logic, such as 'what follows from a true premiss must be true'.

In like manner, a true belief cannot be called knowledge when it is deduced by a fallacious process of reasoning, even if the premisses from which it is deduced are true.