What's the difference between premise and supposition?

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".

Supposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
  • (n.) That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Utilization of the immunoglobulin system is based upon the supposition that in lymphoid neoplasms with clonal origin either all or none of the tumor cells should have surface-associated IgM and kappa-reactivities.
  • (2) The functional role of the retino-thalamo-telencephalic system in the visual integration in birds is discussed and a supposition is advanced on possibility to compare the Wulst region with striatal and frontal visual areas of the mammalian cortex.
  • (3) Pharmacological analysis permitted a supposition to be made that there were two receptor systems in the sensory nerve endings of the cornea; these systems were in reciprocal inhibitory relations; due to this their regular influence on the processes of excitation and inhibition is effected in the sensory nerve ending.
  • (4) Gel filtration chromatography on G-200 Sephadex confirmed this supposition and demonstrated that the abnormal globin chain polymerized with itself as well as with other globin chains.
  • (5) An analysis of concentration dependence of binding these ions with human serum albumin confirmed earlier supposition about the nature of the binding sites of Mn2+ ions with HSA.
  • (6) The present results are consistent with the supposition that the high-affinity site for ATP on the holoenzyme is congruent with the phosphotransferase site of the catalytic subunit.
  • (7) A supposition is advanced that such a difference in duration is determined primarily by properties of these neurons.
  • (8) On the basis of a study of the palmomental reflex in 100 children (from new born to 3 years) and in 73 adult patients with organic lesions of the CNS the author makes a supposition of a connection between its appearance and a lesion of the caudate nucleus.
  • (9) These results confirm our earlier supposition that the additional high frequency internal motions of the thick filaments isolated from striated muscle of Limulus are related to the energy dependent, active cross-bridge motions.
  • (10) Our own data and the meagre results of other studies support the supposition that it is not the absolute time-lapse which has prognostic significance but the qualified medical assistance provided within a critical, individual, but extremely variable time-span.
  • (11) These data permit a supposition that reduction of lipid peroxidation is one of the pathogenetic mechanisms of delayed type hypersensitivity, and that lipid peroxidation enhancement in the skin by iron sulfate electrophoresis is one of the possible mechanisms of suppressing allergic contact dermatitis.
  • (12) In the second case, only subjective suppositions are possible.
  • (13) The supposition that these were B-lymphocytes was supported by analogous morphometric examination on lymphocytes obtained from the thymus and bursa Fabricius of newly shelled chickens and it was established that this number in the bursa was more than twice larger.
  • (14) These findings document yet another "inappropriate" pattern of intermediate filament immunoreactivity in normal and neoplastic human cells, and contradict the widely held supposition that the expression of GFAP is restricted to cells of glial origin.
  • (15) The increase in the rate constant for potassium loss in the presence of ouabain favours this supposition.
  • (16) The results are consistent with the supposition that, on application of a continuous moderate stress, tension induces formation and pressure resorption of bone.
  • (17) These findings, when viewed from the standpoint of the accepted concept that optimum stimulation to the otolith organ constitutes the shearing force, account well for the supposition that forward-and-backward movement stimulates both the sacculi and utriculi, while up-and-down movement stimulates the sacculi alone.
  • (18) The dominance of males with the ratio of 2:1, manifestation of damage not only in sibs, but also in other relatives, and the absence of consanguineous couples testify in favour of this supposition.
  • (19) The first reported case of lissencephaly resulting from a consanguinous union strengthens the supposition that in some cases, it is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait.
  • (20) The supposition of Pándy has proved to be entirely erroneous.