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PREMISIS In discourse, a premise (also "premise" in British usage) is a claim that is a reason (or element of a set of reasons) for, or objection against, some other claim. In other words, it is a statement presumed true within the context of the discourse for the purposes of arguing to a conclusion. Premises are sometimes stated explicitly by way of disambiguation or for emphasis, but more often they are left tacitly understood as being obvious or selfevident ("it goes without saying"), or not conducive to succinct discourse.

PREMISIS For example, in the argument  Socrates is mortal, since all men are It is evident that a tacitly understood claim is that Socrates is a man. The fully expressed reasoning is thus:  Since all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, it follows that Socrates is mortal. In this example, the first two independent clauses preceding the comma (namely, "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man") are the premises, while "Socrates is mortal" is the conclusion.

ARGUMENT 

An argument is a statement (premise) or group of statements (premises) offered in support of another statement (conclusion)