premisat

Premisat is a term encountered in logic and argumentation, used to designate a proposition that serves as the basis for drawing a conclusion. In this sense, a premisat functions like a premise: it is a statement assumed to be true within the scope of an argument and used to justify the inferential step to the conclusion. The word appears in some linguistic traditions and historical texts as a variant or translation of the more common term "premise." It is relatively rare in contemporary English, but may be found in logic glossaries, translations, or educational materials dealing with non-English traditions of argumentation.

Premisat can be explicit or implicit. An explicit premisat is stated within the argument, while an implicit one is assumed by the author or reader. Premisat can take various logical forms, including universal or existential statements, hypothetical conditionals, or disjunctive clauses. In classical syllogistic reasoning, arguments are built from premises that connect to a conclusion through a valid form; in such contexts, one might refer to the central propositions as major and minor premisat.

Example: Premisat 1: All humans are mortal. Premisat 2: Socrates is a human. Conclusion: Socrates is mortal.

Evaluating a premisat involves checking relevance, truth, and sufficiency for the inferential step. If the premisat are faulty, the argument may be weak or invalid, even when the conclusion appears plausible.

See also: Premise (logic), Syllogism, Logical argument, Assumption.