premises

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It is founded entirely on logic; but unfortunately, if the premisses are bad, the better the syllogism the more erroneous will be the conclusion; and it is just this which we find here.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

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.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

Mr. Austen Chamberlain afterwards rather destroyed one’s belief in the truth of his premisses by putting limits to the validity of the principle of identity.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various

By its own premisses it is committed to the doctrine that all specific characters, without a single exception, must be either useful, vestigial, or correlated.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

It struck me, I confess, that instead of burning the collections, they would have done better to ask him what was the connection between his premisses and his conclusions.

From Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II by Stephen, Leslie