Conclusion vs. Premise
Conclusionnoun
The end, finish, close or last part of something.
Conclusionnoun
The outcome or result of a process or act.
Conclusionnoun
A decision reached after careful thought.
Conclusionnoun
(logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
Conclusionnoun
(obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
Conclusionnoun
(legal) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
Conclusionnoun
(legal) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
Conclusionnoun
The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
Conclusionnoun
Final decision; determination; result.
Conclusionnoun
Any inference or result of reasoning.
Conclusionnoun
The inferred proposition of a syllogism; the necessary consequence of the conditions asserted in two related propositions called premises. See Syllogism.
Conclusionnoun
Drawing of inferences.
Conclusionnoun
An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
Conclusionnoun
The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace," etc.
Conclusionnoun
a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration;
Conclusionnoun
an intuitive assumption;
Conclusionnoun
the temporal end; the concluding time;
Conclusionnoun
event whose occurrence ends something;
Conclusionnoun
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
Conclusionnoun
the act of ending something;
Conclusionnoun
a final settlement;
Conclusionnoun
the last section of a communication;
Conclusionnoun
the act of making up your mind about something;
Premisenoun
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Premisenoun
(logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
Premisenoun
Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
Premisenoun
A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. (This meaning arose from meaning #3, by owners of land and/or buildings finding the word in their title deeds and wrongly guessing its meaning.)
Premisenoun
(authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
Premiseverb
To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
Premiseverb
To make a premise.
Premiseverb
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
Premiseverb
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
Premisenoun
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
Premisenoun
Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
Premisenoun
Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
Premisenoun
A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
Premiseverb
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
Premiseverb
To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
Premiseverb
To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Premisenoun
a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn;
Premiseverb
set forth beforehand, often as an explanation;
Premiseverb
furnish with a preface or introduction;
Premiseverb
take something as preexisting and given
Premise
A premise or premiss is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion. It is an assumption that something is true.
