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premise Noun

— A premise is a set of ideas from which you can put forward an answer or reach conclusion. A basic premise of Christianity is to treat other people like you want to be treated.

premise

— noun (= 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 — verb take something as preexisting and given — verb set forth beforehand, often as an explanation He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand — verb (= precede, preface) furnish with a preface or introduction She always precedes her lectures with a joke He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution

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premiss assumption presupposition prerequisite precondition hypothesis supposition preface base suppose proposition preamble condition presuppose presumption precede postulate introduce ground found conjecture assume suggestion start up start site shebang set up sentence second safe house requisite requirement repose on reason proposal prolusion prologue preposition plant overture offer motion matter making launch jumping-off point jumping-off place incorporate implication

Conjugation premise conjugation

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Simple sentences

The argument is very logical, but it is based on a flawed premise.
You ought to think over whether the premise is valid or not.

Movie subtitles

It all stems from the premise that he must try to be perfect.
A specious or false premise.
And it will walk on one premise alone.
On first reading it's evident that the film lacks a problematic, or a philosophical premise.
No, the whole premise is silly- and it's very badly written. I'm the senior officer here- and I haven't had a funny line yet, so I'm stopping it.
I cannot accept your premise, Socrates.
Hello, mrs. premise.
It's beulagh premise here.
Oh, pardon. C'est beulagh premise ici. Oui, oui, dans ibiza.
Accept my premise.
What premise?
It seemed appropriate to balance Sophocles' text with the disclaimer text. To keep with its style, to premise it, almost like a chorus.
The premise is this guy screws so great.
However, I think that Fassett's premise is dangerous because it's based on the nonbenevolent ambition of one man.
But certainly, and granting my premise, I would say that my logic was perfect.
Well, I got you out here to prove to you that your theory is built on a false premise.
The ideal premise for an amorous encounter.
What? - The whole premise is silly and it's very badly written.
I've always gone on the premise that to be happy, you have to feel happy.
Svetlana! I operate on the premise that honest is the cornerstone of any meaningful relationship.
I'II state the premise. You dispute it.
I said, a marvellous premise, but stiff.
Rue Campagne Premise?
Not a guess, a solid premise?
Your parents and Ascher gave the prosecution the one premise it shouldn't have. that any crime was committed at all.
I'II state the premise.
It's my premise that the concept of personal happiness. permeates the literature of a nation or civilization. as its influence wanes.
His point is that the novel's premise. - that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play. - is simply absurd.
It was like, uh. the premise for this whole book. was that every thought you have creates its own reality, you know?
And because of that premise, an act like this can be bizarre and peculiar.
Needless to say for multiple people, but even for an individual a movie can never stand in front of us as the same experience unless having the illusion as a premise that a film as a text is a single thing.
What's the premise?
The premise is so far-fetched it's absurd.

News and current affairs

The story's premise is that the world will run out of oil faster than we thought, as these billions of people chase their dreams of big houses and sport utility vehicles.
The Oslo Peace Process was built on the premise that moderates on both sides would gradually gain each other's trust and move steadily towards compromise.
Lee's premise, from which he never departed, was that, especially in a multi-ethnic society like Singapore, a meritocratic elite must impose social harmony from above.
As with homebuyers, all would be well, the reasoning went, on the premise that home prices continue to rise at a healthy pace.
I agree with the critics' conclusion, but not with their premise, for the success of the single currency so far has been due precisely to the political commitments of the Union's member countries.
The third is less honorable, and likely to fail: it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power's political adversaries will be more public-spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.
The unspoken premise is that there must be no losers, not even in the short term.
Restrictions on certain areas of historical inquiry are based on the opposite premise: the truth is known, and it is impious to question it.
Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over.
In this way, we will remind those in the industry of a fundamental premise: their most precious commodity is not a blockbuster drug, but the public's trust.
Economics, in other words, must start from the premise of imperfect rather than perfect knowledge.
After all, it is a fundamental premise of the theory of secularization that the more modern a society, the more secular it becomes.
Because the very premise of the current deal and the expectations it sets out are wrong.
That premise should be a commitment to invest in the provision of public goods that people and governments worldwide want but cannot attain without American leadership.
But it's worth taking a closer look at the premise that banning things is the smartest way to tackle global warming.
But this premise is wrong, for three reasons.
Mainland officials justify the law in terms of clarifying their policy and establishing a legal premise for invading the island.
Its key premise is that the equilibrium interest rate at which demand would balance supply is currently below the actual interest rate.
One premise underlies this entire line of thought: to imagine that there is a democratic alternative to Saddam, or that once he disappears there will be a democratic transition in Iraq, is to entertain dangerous illusions.
The paper's central premise was that Japan's monetary and fiscal authorities had erred mainly by acting too timidly.
But if the basic premise of these trials is to uphold human rights, then we are obliged to extend that same principle to Duch.
But such thinking is based on a false premise.
At the time, the Dow Jones industrial average of US stocks was trading at around 11,000, so the book's premise seemed outrageous.

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