- premise, premiss, assumption - a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
--1 is a kind of postulate, posit
--1 has particulars:major premise, major premiss; minor premise, minor premiss, subsumption; thesis; condition, precondition, stipulation; scenario Derived form: verb premiss1
- premise, premiss - take something as preexisting and given
--1 is one way to presuppose, suppose
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun premiss1
Somebody ----s something