Premisszái

Premisszái are the premises of an argument in logic and philosophy. They are the propositions that are assumed true at the start of a reasoning process and from which a conclusion is derived. The strength and relevance of an argument rest largely on the quality of its premisszái: if the premises are true and pertinent, the conclusion follows with greater force; if they are false or unrelated, the inference weakens or becomes fallacious.

In a typical deductive structure, premisszái include a major premise and a minor premise, whose logical connection yields a conclusion. For example: Premisszái: Every human is mortal. Socrates is a human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Premisszái serve as the factual or assumed basis for such conclusions, and they can be statements about general rules, empirical facts, or accepted hypotheses.

Linguistically, premisszák is the common plural form, while premisszái is encountered as a grammatically inflected form used in possessive or descriptive phrases (for example, referring to “the premisszái of the argument”). In scholarly writing, one may encounter both forms depending on the syntactic context.

Beyond pure logic, the concept appears in argumentative writing and analytic disciplines, where authors must justify their conclusions by clearly articulating the premisszái and ensuring they are pertinent and credible. Related terms include deduction, syllogism, and inference, which describe the relationship between premisszái and conclusions in different argumentative formats.