premise

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Yeah, the premise is a bit crazy, but that's what the fantasy genre is all about, right?

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  1. noun A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
  2. noun Logic One of the propositions in a deductive argument.
  3. noun Logic Either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
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  • To some die-hards any story with such a premise is automatically fantasy, or at the very least takes place in an alternate universe. —  AEon Four
  • Here his premise is a world where the eldritch horrors of Lovecraft et al. —  AnalogSFF,May2006
  • We'll let you decide whether the premise is a good one or not. —  SF Signal
  • This premise was also supported by data presented at ILM: 08 by comScore's Brian Jurutka. —  Kelsey Group Blogs
  • This time, the premise was a team of special investigators as a part of a federal task force called the Viper Project. —  NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
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  1. Middle English premisse, from Old French, from Medieval Latin praemissa (propositiō), (the proposition) put before, premise, from Latin, feminine past participle of praemittere, to set in front : prae-, pre- + mittere, to send.

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  1. from Latin præmissus, past participle præmittere, send before or forward: see premit. For the form, cf. premise, n., demise.
 

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