Premise
Premise noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.
Truth
Truth noun - Agreement with fact or reality.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- As the Animorphs series kept getting longer, the premise of the kids having to hide the truth from everybody kept getting less believable.
Source: Idiot Plot / Literature - Truth refers to the factual accuracy of each premise and conclusion of the argument.
Source: Sound, Valid, True - Amazingly, it remains a comedy, only with a different premise: the father starts telling his three-year-old son wild stories to protect him from the truth of what is happening.
Source: Genre Shift / Live-Action Films
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