MAGNIFYING Definitions

Premise: In any argument, one of the statements from which another statement (the conclusion) is deduced or of which the conclusion is presented as a consequence. These statements, from which the conclusion is claimed to follow, are the suppositions on which the conclusion rests.

A Dictionary Of Philosophy. Second edition. (Pan Books 1984).

Example:

First premise: All men are mortal.

Second premise: No gods are mortal.

Conclusion: No men are gods.

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