premising
present participle ofpremise
premise
verb[T]
formaluk/prɪˈmaɪz//ˈprem.ɪs/us/prɪˈmaɪz//ˈprem.ɪs/tobaseatheory,argument, etc. on anidea,thought, orbelief:
He premised hisargumentonseveralincorrectassumptions.
Logic and reason
- a fortiori
- a posteriori
- a priori
- analytic
- antinomy
- incoherently
- inductive
- inductively
- intellectual
- intellectualism
- non-verbal
- nonscientific
- paradox
- paradoxical
- paradoxically
- theoretically
- theory
- thinking
- ultra-rational
- unrealistic
Examplesofpremising
premising
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We thus cannot account for tort law's expansive obligations to protect innocent persons from others' wrongs bypremisingthem on promises to do so.
From theCambridge English Corpus
On balance of efficiency and fairness, a meanspremisingon a quota system, and complemented with balloting will be considered.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He now classified the mental faculties,premisingthat they must not be confounded with capacities or properties of mind.
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