Meaning & use
Premiss
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A statement or proposition assumed to be true and used as a basis for reasoning or drawing a conclusion; a British spelling of 'premise' in logic.
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The argument's conclusion followed logically from its two premisses.
If either premiss is false, the entire argument collapses.
A note on using this word
The spelling 'premiss' is traditionally preferred in formal logic, especially in older British texts, while 'premise' is the standard spelling elsewhere.
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