Premise and Thinking

Premise

Premise noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.

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Thinking and premise are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thinking" instead a noun "Premise".

Nearby Words: premiss, premised, premising

Thinking noun - The process of using your mind to consider something carefully.

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Premise and thinking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Premise" instead a noun "Thinking".

Nearby Words: think, thinker, thinkable

good	good premise	good thinking
best	best premise	best thinking
similar	similar premise	similar thinking
short	short premise	short thinking
Other adjectives: original, simple, actual, entire, real, great, clever, creative, straightforward, new, insane.

Basically the whole premise of Daikatana, although the main characters spend so much time screwing around in the mythic past that one could be forgiven for thinking it was otherwise.

Source: Set Right What Once Went Wrong
The author does quite well at thinking out the rules and limitations of the premise.

Source: Invisible Streaker
The premise of the first season of Once Upon a Time is that all of the people in Storybrooke are fairy tale characters magic'd into thinking they're not.

Source: Internal Reveal

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