Premises and Reasoning

Premises

Premises noun - Land and the buildings on it.

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Reasoning and premises are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Reasoning" with "Premises", this nouns are similar.

Reasoning noun - The thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems.

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Premises and reasoning are semantically related in reasons topic. Sometimes you can use "Premises" instead a noun "Reasoning".

Nearby Words: reason, reasonable, reasoned, reasonably

similar	similar premises	similar reasoning
original	original premises	original reasoning
entire	entire premises	entire reasoning
false	false premises	false reasoning
Other adjectives: main, flimsy, new, vague, absurd, shaky, bizarre, basic.

Once again, his reasoning might be unsound, but that does not affect the truth value of his premises.

Source: Ad Hominem
The premises and conclusion can be "true" or "false"; the chain of reasoning itself can be "valid" or "invalid"; the argument as a whole is either "sound" or "unsound".

Source: Sound, Valid, True
This is often cited as a demonstration of deductive reasoning (reaching a conclusion that is true by definition based on its premises) but is actually an example of inductive reasoning (reaching a conclusion that has some probability of being true based on its premises).

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