What's the difference between assumption and premise?

Assumption


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
  • (n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
  • (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
  • (n.) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
  • (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
  • (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assumption was also corroborated using reagents from a family in which DR3 and DQw2 were not found in the usually described linkage.
  • (2) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
  • (3) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
  • (4) The findings support the assumption that changes in tubular Na+ transport probably participate in the changes of tubular amino acid transport in elderly individuals.
  • (5) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
  • (6) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
  • (7) It requires the assumption that there is no isotopic exchange between lactate and other compounds, yet experimental evidence indicates that lactate and pyruvate are in rapid equilibrium.
  • (8) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
  • (9) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
  • (10) These findings lend new support to the assumption of the bifunctional property of IGFBP-3, which would have an effect outside the cell (binding of IGF in the medium) and another effect within cells or on the surface.
  • (11) The absence of proliferation control violates the general assumption that idiotypic interactions play an important role in immune regulation.
  • (12) Experiment 4 replicated these findings with children, indicating that the assumption of a correlation between word and visual complexity exists during the period of intense vocabulary growth.
  • (13) Mean open-loop gains calculated under this assumption were 1.64 for the CS system alone, 0.89 for the V system alone, and 6.59 for the interacting component between them.
  • (14) Yet the OBR’s list of basic assumptions in its 260-page report on the economic and fiscal outlook this week are not exactly controversial: the UK to leave the EU in 2019; slower import and export growth in the transitional period; a tighter migration regime.
  • (15) In conclusion, shape analysis and pattern recognition techniques can be used to forego dependence on the numerous assumptions and approximations required by traditional wall motion techniques, while providing performance characteristics that are similar to, and in some instances better than, traditional approaches.
  • (16) Published estimates of radiation dose to the gonads from 131I therapy of Graves' disease vary widely, largely because of differences in assumptions regarding the details of iodine kinetics.
  • (17) This reconstruction only requires very general assumptions, such as tracer-tracee indistinguishability and mass conservation; in particular it is independent of the glucose model structure, i.e., number of compartments and their interconnections.
  • (18) The authors expressed in 1984 the assumption that lithium is the drug of the phenomenon of suicidal action in affective disorders.
  • (19) Estimates of the number of eventual TA-AIDS cases to be seen are considerably more uncertain and require additional assumptions about the incubation distribution.
  • (20) Although epistatic selection cannot be completely ruled out, our results are better explained under the assumption of neutrality.

Premise


Definition:

  • (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
  • (n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
  • (n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
  • (n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
  • (n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
  • (n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
  • (v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
  • (2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (3) There are far too many fast-food premises near schools.
  • (4) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
  • (5) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
  • (6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
  • (7) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
  • (8) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
  • (9) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
  • (10) If that premise is accepted, there is much that academic institutions can do to foster utilization of their biotechnological discoveries.
  • (11) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
  • (12) As a smaller, weaker, standalone company, it would struggle to invest as much as it does currently.” The company said the UK was repeatedly ranked the best for broadband speeds in the EU and claimed 90% of UK premises had access to fibre optic connections.
  • (13) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
  • (14) The higher-cost practices were those that maintained donors on the premises specifically for blood donation purposes.
  • (15) This paper concentrates on the applications of the Project used in Health Centres, where General Practitioners share premises with District Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers and other members of the Community Health Care Team.
  • (16) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
  • (17) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
  • (18) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
  • (19) Further study is needed to verify this latter premise.
  • (20) Mr Clarke said tonight that the premises will "now be thoroughly searched, and that is a process that will take some time".