| NOUN | communication | premiss, premise, assumption | a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn |
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| VERB | cognition | premiss, premise | take something as preexisting and given |
| Meaning | A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn. | |
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| Synonyms | premise, assumption | |
| Narrower | condition, precondition, stipulation | An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else |
| major premise, major premiss | The premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) | |
| minor premise, minor premiss, subsumption | The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | |
| scenario | A postulated sequence of possible events | |
| thesis | An unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument | |
| Broader | postulate, posit | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning |
| Spanish | premisa, supuesto | |
| Catalan | premissa, supòsit | |
| Verbs | premiss | take something as preexisting and given |
| Meaning | Take something as preexisting and given. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | premise | |
| Broader | presuppose, suppose | take for granted or as a given |
| Nouns | premiss | a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn |
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