In this way we find out what must be taken as premiss and what can be demonstrated or defined.
Nor is it, in any sense, a premissof science: it is an empirical generalisation from a number of laws which are themselves empirical generalisations.
The consequent of the hypothetical major premiss is termed pâpanâ because it is got from the antecedent.
The premiss, that the idea of God is a mere verbal proposition, may be a premiss as imaginary as that from which Gloucester leaped.
But that the proposition is fundamentally true must be admitted by whoever, in addition to the arguments just adduced, will concede two premiss is, neither of which seem susceptible of much dispute.
The first premiss is, that we are in possession of no evidence that the powers of nature have ever been permanently increased; and that we have no reason to expect that any such increase can take place.
Now, there can be no doubt but that if the logician's premiss is true, the conclusion is unavoidable.
If the premiss be granted, the inference must doubtless be admitted; but the premiss, in the form presented by Sir William Hamilton and Mr. Mansel, is not strictly true.
And what is the true premiss which through an irrefutable logic will give us a satisfactory, a true, an undoubted conclusion.
Now apply this law to the psychological premiss of Mr. Spencer, that we have a positive knowledge that the Absolute is.
Moreover, the premiss is also false in the ordinary sense which the words bear: and not merely false, but logically impossible, as a sin against the maxim of contradiction.
In the Xenophontic dialogue here referred to, Sokrates inverts the premiss and the conclusion: he infers that Mind and Reason govern the Kosmos, because the mind and reason of man govern the body of man.
Unwarrantable steps in the reasoning--The fundamental premiss differently interpreted, though the same in words.
Unwarrantable steps in the reasoning--The fundamental premiss differently interpreted, though the same in words 105 Demonstrations VIII.
Will you bring some deep objection to a premiss which is fundamental .
Accordingly it will include any progress of the mind from one judgment to another, as, for instance, by way of moral fitness, which may not admit of analysis into premiss and conclusion.
One can do without distinctions, if need be, by denying either some premiss or some conclusion; and when one is doubtful of the meaning of some term used by the opposer one may demand of him its definition.
For as it is the doubtful premiss of the adversary that I deny, my denial will be [116] as intelligible as his affirmation.
It is enough, putting it briefly, to deny some premiss or some conclusion, or finally to explain or get explained some ambiguous term.
This premiss of the ontological proof--the most interesting proof, because it proceeds from within--expresses the inmost nature of religion.
But this objection is refuted by the remark already made, that even the premiss of the Christian Incarnation contains the human nature.
The general premiss of this belief is: man can of himself know nothing of God; all his knowledge is merely vain, earthly, human.
I do not see that either premiss of this argument is open to exception.
The ground for the premiss is carefully prepared, the premiss itself is clearly stated; nearly every possible objection is examined and answered; and then comes the conclusion.
It will suffice to mention here that Peano's fourth premiss of arithmetic does not hold for infinite cardinals or for infinite ordinals.
That is to say, if we admit the premiss assumed by Mr. Symington and his school, we cannot consistently deny their conclusion.
Now Leibnitz admits the minor, and denies the major, premiss of this argument.
Therefore,-- But it has been shewn that the learned Professor's minorpremiss is false.
This premiss I accept from Logic, as resulting from the analysis of judgment and inference.
Lie's method is perfectly exhaustive; omitting the premiss of Monodromy, the others show that a body has six degrees of freedom, i.
That was the major premiss of them both, in the moral syllogism (s.
How, then, can this law be a guide and a premiss in the investigations of science, when those investigations are necessary to complete the proof of the law itself?
All the principles set forth in the above hypothesis are sound in themselves, but the premiss from which they start is untrue.
This premiss is, that aboriginal man presented no rudiments of the sign-making faculty—that this faculty itself required to be originated de novo by accidental associations of sounds with things.
This premiss is that aboriginal man presented no rudiments of the sign-making faculty, and, therefore, that this faculty itself required to be created de novo by accidental associations of sounds with things.
Irrelevant in a popular sense; one would not say, speaking loosely, that the fact that Brutus killed Caesar implies that the sea is salt; and yet this conclusion is implied both by the above premiss, and the premiss that Caesar killed Brutus.
This important principle may be called the principle of the irrelevant premiss;[53] and is of great service in oratory, because it does not matter what the premiss is, true or false.
I confess that I see no escape from the implied conclusion if the premiss is true.
But if the view of life outlined in these pages be true, then this premiss is palpably false.
The inductive principle has less self-evidence than some of the other principles of logic, such as 'what follows from a true premissmust be true'.
It is not enough that the axioms from which we start should be self-evident: it is necessary also that, at each step in the reasoning, the connexion of premiss and conclusion should be self-evident.
Before asking an important question we must premiss that) in the intelligible world the cause that is complementary to a being is ultimately united to it.
Man started at the outset with the evil premiss of the right of the strong to possess himself of the weak and the conquered, and enslave him for his own use, shunting the toil and burden of life upon his bowed shoulders.
For the premiss on account of which we intend to demand that that point which is doubtful shall be conceded to us, ought not to be doubtful itself.
But the first premiss is certainly the case; therefore so must the consequent be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "premiss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hypothesis; premise; presumption; thesis
