单词 | premise |
释义 | premise (also premiss), n 1 statement or idea on which reasoning is based; hypothesis (推理所依据的)前提; 假定 Advice to investors was based on the premise that interest rates would continue to fall. 给予投资者的建议是以利率将继续下降这一点为前提的. 2 (in logic) each of the first two parts (major premise and minor premise) of a forward argument (逻辑学中的)(大小)前提 If the major premise is `Boys like fruit´ and the minor premise is `You are a boy´, then the conclusion is `Therefore you like fruit´. 设若大前提为`男孩儿爱吃水果', 小前提为`你是男孩儿', 则结论为`所以你爱吃水果'. Cf 参看 syllogism. |
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