Definition of Premise

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Premise

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.

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.

A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.

To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

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.

To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

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Premise Quotations

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.
Sidney Sheldon

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Mikhail Bakunin

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
Thom Yorke

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
Leo Strauss

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
Amy Poehler

Premise Translations

premise in Spanish is premisa
premise in Swedish is premiss, fastighet, antagande

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