Noun
of Premise
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (novelist)
I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. Ayn Rand
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. Jimmy Carter
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. Oliver Goldsmith
If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe. Gregory Bateson
The ass that trespasses on a stranger's premises will leave them laden with wood. Portuguese Proverb