The premisses considered the peticoners do professe vnto all both frinds and Enemyes.
And to open and declare þe premisses unto your saide higenesse more at large.
The premisses therefore considered we do advertise you of the same to thentent that like as we doubt nat but ye and every of you wol take pleasor and comfort in hering thereof.
Only one person upon the premisses presumes to carry a belly, and he a landlord.
On his own narrow premisses this eminent logician builds up his own narrow conclusions with remorseless rigour.
The truth is, that when our author closes his work, he cannot face the conclusions to which his premisses would inevitably lead him.
The premisses of faith are not so palpable as those of ordinary reason, but they are as real and solid premisses all the same.
We infer, we go upon reasons, we use premisses in either case.
Footnote: Thought is taken in the two premisses in two totally different senses.
From the cognition of self to the cognition of the world, and through these to the supreme being, the progression is so natural, that it seems to resemble the logical march of reason from the premisses to the conclusion.
I seek vainly for the decree forbidding him the right to study the problem of biological evolution in itself, and for the necessity which compels him to abide now by the premisses contained in his past work.
These premisses in substaunce we have be wrytyng, aswell from the cheff capytaynes of our said armee, as from our comptrollour[127-1] forsaid.
And I charge myne executours to see that the premissesbe done and performed, and also the said freris to feche me from the place where I die unto thair said place where I have lymyted afore to be buried.
His virtue is that of acute and logical inference from given premisses; the premisses themselves he is commonly satisfied to take without examination from those who have gone before him.
The argument is perfect, if we only admit the premisses; the only unlucky thing is that the premisses will constantly be found to be historically worthless.
Philosophy, according to Hegel's conception of it, does but draw the conclusion supplied by the premisses of religion: it supplements and rounds off into coherence the religious implications.
Ka.nâda however does not mention the name of any of these premisses excepting the second "apades'a.
Vâtsyâyana says that this sûtra was written to refute the views of those who held that there should be tenpremisses [Footnote ref 3].
A Retinend, asserted in the Premisses to exist, may | | be so asserted in the Conclusion.
A Retinend, asserted in the Premisses to exist, may be so asserted in the Conclusion.
Hence it needs the two Premisses to empty the whole of the N.
Existential Import" of Propositions, the use of a negative Copula, and the theory that "two negative Premisses prove nothing.
Proceed thus, until all the proposed Premisseshave been used.
EX8 Sets of Abstract Propositions, proposed as Premisses for Soriteses: Conclusions to be found.
EX9 Sets of Concrete Propositions, proposed as Premissesfor Soriteses: Conclusions to be found.
The theory that "two Negative Premissesprove nothing".
It was quite natural to place them together, and that the Chief of the Apostles should figure as the conclusion to the premisses set forth by the other statues of this portal.
And practical men would be mathematicians if they could turn their eyes to the premisses of mathematics to which they are unaccustomed.
For instance, the first easily understand the laws of hydrostatics, where the premisses are few, but the conclusions so nice, that only the greatest penetration can reach them.
We have only to look that way, there is no difficulty in seeing them; it is only a question of good eyesight, but it must be good, for the premisses are so numerous and so subtle, that it is scarce possible but that some escape us.
All mathematicians would then be practical if they were clear-sighted, for they do not reason incorrectly on premisses known to them.
The heart has its own order; the mind too has its own, which is bypremisses and demonstrations, that of the heart is wholly different.
The other able to comprehend a great number of premisses without confusion, and these are the minds for mathematics.
But in the practical mind the premisses are taken from use and wont, and are before the eyes of every body.
Given these two premisses of God’s essential grace and the moral responsibility of the heathen to Him, and the conclusion could never have been far away that in the end His essential grace must reach the heathen too.
But suppose we accept Kosters’ premisses and agree that these two documents really exist within Ezra v.
So too of reasonings, whether by syllogism, or induction: for both teach through what is previously known, the former assuming the premisses as from wise men, the latter proving universals from the evidentness of the particulars.
The major premisses may be stored up in the mind as rules of action, and this is what is commonly meant by having principles good or bad.
On the contrary, I consider it as the weakest: because his own premisses (in my judgment) not only do not prove his conclusion, but go far to prove the opposite.
The premisses of each of these two syllogisms contradict the conclusion of the other.
I do not concur with Ast in the estimation of those passages which serve as premisses to his conclusion.
I agree with Schleiermacher and the other recent critics in considering the First and Second Alkibiades to be inferior in merit to Plato's best dialogues; and I contend that their own premisses justify no more.
Thus general truths cannot be inferred from particular truths alone, but must, if they are to be known, be either self-evident, or inferred from premisses of which at least one is a general truth.
The discovery of these premisses belongs to philosophy; but the work of deducing the body of common knowledge from them belongs to mathematics, if "mathematics" is interpreted in a somewhat liberal sense.
Perhaps one atomic fact may sometimes be capable of being inferred from another, though this seems very doubtful; but in any case it cannot be inferred from premisses no one of which is an atomic fact.
Thus analysis into premissesserves not only a logical purpose, but also the purpose of facilitating an estimate as to the degree of certainty to be attached to this or that derivative belief.
If they seem to depend upon the subject-matter otherwise than as regards the truth of the premisses, that is because the premisses have not been all explicitly stated.
Premisses are thus quite different from data--they are simpler, more precise, and less infected with logical redundancy.
But the deductions which Bacon abolished were from premisses hastily snatched up, or arbitrarily assumed.
If we would determine what conclusion follows from the same ostensible premisses when the tacit assumption of real existence is left out, let us, according to the recommendation in the Westminster Review, substitute means for is.
The real premisses must be— A dragon is a really existing thing which breathes flame: A dragon is a really existing serpent: which implied premisses being false, the falsity of the conclusion presents no absurdity.
The two former we infer from the testimony adduced, or from the traces of those past occurrences which still exist; the latter, from the premisses laid down in books of geometry, under the title of definitions and axioms.
And pray, if the premisses are true, and nothing of my own is added, how can you venture to suppose that my inferences are astray?
Walter Petty agreed with the conclusion, but was at a loss to divine the premisses through which it was arrived at.
In them the premisses are frequently wrong, but the deductions are almost always legitimate; whereas, in the writings of the present day, the premisses are commonly sound, but the conclusions false.
The only true theories are those of geometry, because in geometry all the premisses are true and unalterable.
It is, in fact, a very admirable piece of special pleading, based on a skilful assumption of premisses which, to a careless or biassed observer, might seem indisputable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "premisses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
