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as a premise

ADJECTIVE
hypothetic
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abstract academic analytical assumed codified conjectural contingent formalistic formularized general hypothetical ideal idealized ideational ideological imaginative impractical in the abstract in theory instanced intelle
ADJECTIVE
theoretic
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abstract academic analytical assumed codified conjectural contingent formalistic formularized general hypothetic hypothetical ideal idealized ideational ideological imaginative impractical in the abstract in theory instanced intellectual logical metaphysical notional on paper pedantic philosophical postulated presumed problematical pure quixotic speculative suppositional tentative transcendent transcendental unearthly unproved unsubstantiated vague
ADJECTIVE
theoretical
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abstract academic analytical imaginative intellectual logical metaphysical philosophical speculative vague
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assumed codified conjectural contingent formalistic formularized general ideal idealized ideational ideological impractical in the abstract in theory instanced notional on paper pedantic postulated presumed problematical pure quixotic suppositional tentative transcendent transcendental unearthly unproved unsubstantiated
Antonyms
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concrete ignorant illogical material objective physical real simple
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certain definite factual proven

Example Sentences

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Yet Tesfaye has recently hinted at retiring the Weeknd as a premise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Once you've accepted something as a premise and committed to it, you can be entirely internally consistent and reach more and more outlandish conclusions.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

Other sci-fi series take climate emergency as a premise.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023

A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

We have already shown that this assertion is based upon a confusion of the dream with the latent thoughts of the dream, that as a premise it overlooks the existence of the dream-work.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund