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The lie you accept on page one to enjoy the truth on page two.
means A premise is an idea or statement you take as a starting point, from which other conclusions or actions are supposed to follow.
from From the Latin praemissa, 'things sent before' or 'set forth beforehand' — from prae- ('before') plus mittere ('to send'). It came into English through medieval logic, where the praemissae were the statements placed at the head of an argument, before the conclusion. The plural 'premises' meaning 'a building' branches from the same root in a roundabout way: legal documents would refer back to property 'aforementioned' — the premises set out earlier — until the word slid over to mean the thing itself.
- logic root
- Comes from Latin for 'set before' an argument
- two flavors
- Major and minor, then conclusion drops
- garbage in
- False premise can yield perfectly valid nonsense
- story spine
- Hollywood pitches whole films in one premise sentence
- legal ghost
- 'Premises' once meant the things mentioned above
descartes' cogito ergo sum — foundational philosophical premise from 17th century meditations that consciousness proves existence
the fermi paradox — premise that alien life should exist given billions of galaxies, yet we see no evidence
occam's razor — principle that simpler explanations are preferable, attributed to 14th century philosopher william of ockham