different between premise vs elenchus

English

Alternative forms

• præmise (archaic), præmiss (archaic), premiss

Etymology

From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).

The sense "a piece of real estate" arose from the misinterpretation of the word by property owners while reading title deeds where the word was used with the legal sense.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?'m?s, IPA^(key): /?p??.m?s/

Noun

premise (plural premises)

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

2. (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
   • 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety

     While the premises stand firm, 'tis impossible to shake the conclusion.

3. (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, 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.
4. (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.

5. (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

Coordinate terms

• conclusion

Derived terms

• on-premises

Translations

Derived terms

• major premise
• minor premise

Related terms

• mission

Verb

premise (third-person singular simple present premises, present participle premising, simple past and past participle premised)

1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
2. To make a premise.
3. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

   • I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
4. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
   • 1794–1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia

     if venesection can be previously performed, even to but few ounces, the effect of the opium is much more certain; and still more so, if there be time to premise a brisk cathartic, or even an emetic

References

• premise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• empires, emprise, epimers, imprese, permies, premies, spireme

Italian

Verb

premise

1. third-person singular past historic of premettere

Anagrams

• esprime, imprese, permise, spremei

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (élenkhos, “refutation, scrutiny, control”). Doublet of elench.

Noun

elenchus (plural elenchi)

1. (rhetoric) A technique of argument associated with Socrates wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguer's intended point.
   • 1991, Thomas c. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, “Socrates’ Elenctic Mission”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume IX (1991),^[1] Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 131–132:

     The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that Socrates wishes to examine. The argument then proceeds from premisses that express certain of the interlocutor’s other beliefs to a conclusion that contradicts the original moral claim under scrutiny.

Synonyms

• Socratic method

Related terms

• elenctic

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (élenkhos, “refutation, scrutiny”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng?- (“to accuse, to scold”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?len.k?us/, [??????k??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?len.kus/, [??l??kus]

Noun

elenchus m (genitive elench?); second declension

1. costly trinket (especially an earring)
2. refutation

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: elenc
• Italian: elenco
• Portuguese: elenco
• Romanian: elencos, elenchus
• Spanish: elenco

References

• elenchus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elenchus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elenchus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• elenchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• elenchus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elenchus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• elenchus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin