Foundation and Premises

Foundation

Foundation noun - A public organization with a particular purpose or function.

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Premises and foundation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Premises" instead a noun "Foundation".

Nearby Words: founder, founded, founding, foundationer

Premises noun - Land and the buildings on it.

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Foundation and premises are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foundation" instead a noun "Premises".

female	female foundation	female premises
similar	similar foundation	similar premises
original	original foundation	original premises
simple	simple foundation	simple premises
Other adjectives: entire, main, new, permanent, fictional, basic.

Spiritual Successor: To quite a few shows with similar premises, like the SCP Foundation, Friday the 13th: The Series without the emphasis on horror, GURPS Warehouse 23: The Series.

Source: Series / Warehouse 13
Most theories have a foundation of underlying premises (the aforementioned "entities"), all of which need to be true for the theory itself to be true.

Source: Occam's Razor

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