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  2. Premise - Wikipedia

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    A premise or premiss [a] is a proposition—a true or false declarative statement—used in an argument to prove the truth of another proposition called the conclusion. [1] Arguments consist of a set of premises and a conclusion. An argument is meaningful for its conclusion only when all of its premises are true. If one or more premises are ...

  3. Premises - Wikipedia

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    Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds , where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".

  4. Syllogism - Wikipedia

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    Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion: in a major premise, this is the major term (i.e., the predicate of the conclusion); in a minor premise, this is the minor term (i.e., the subject of the conclusion). For example: Major premise: All humans are mortal. Minor premise: All Greeks are humans.

  5. Premise (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Premise is a claim that is a reason for, or an objection against, some other claim as part of an argument. Premise (from the Latin praemissa [propositio], meaning "placed in front") may also refer to: Premises, land and buildings together considered as a property; Premise (narrative), the situational logic driving the plot in plays

  6. Glossary of logic - Wikipedia

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    A standard form of categorical syllogism in Aristotelian logic, where all three propositions (major premise, minor premise, and conclusion) are universal affirmatives, symbolized as AAA. The form is: All M are P, All S are M, therefore All S are P. [28] [29] [30] Barcan formula

  7. Logic - Wikipedia

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    Logic studies arguments, which consist of a set of premises that leads to a conclusion. An example is the argument from the premises "it's Sunday" and "if it's Sunday then I don't have to work" leading to the conclusion "I don't have to work". [1] Premises and conclusions express propositions or claims that can be true or false. An important ...

  8. Validity (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Argument terminology used in logic. In logic, an argument is a set of related statements expressing the premises (which may consists of non-empirical evidence, empirical evidence or may contain some axiomatic truths) and an necessary conclusion based on the relationship of the premises.

  9. Logical consequence - Wikipedia

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    A valid logical argument is one in which the conclusion is entailed by the premises, because the conclusion is the consequence of the premises. The philosophical analysis of logical consequence involves the questions: In what sense does a conclusion follow from its premises? and What does it mean for a conclusion to be a consequence of premises ...