Concept in Definition ABC

Sentence that forms a reasoning and allows to draw a conclusion

It is designated in our premise language to that part of a reasoning that can be determined as true or false and that serves to arrive at a conclusion.
The logic It is one of the disciplines that has studied the most these elements that make up a reasoning. From the most remote times, even, this fundamental component has been studied at the behest of argumentative processes.

The openness in the knowledge of the use of premises dates back to Ancient Greece and to the works in this sense carried out by one of the most famous philosophers of this time, such as Aristotle. Precisely the logic developed by this thinker installs syllogisms, which are arguments made up of premises consisting of bimembre sentences (subject plus predicate) in which an affirmation or negation of the predicate appears with respect to the subject in question. From the premises presented, a conclusion that will be implicit in the premises can be deduced.

Syllogisms

In the field of Logic, each of the propositions of the Syllogism is called a premise from which the pertinent conclusion will also be inferred. A premise is a expressionlinguistics that can affirm or deny some situation or question and that can be true or false.
For both logic and philosophy the premises are propositions that always precede a conclusion and then the premises will always be the protagonists of the conclusion.

An argument can be made up of a single premise, such as: there were several shots or more than one premise. In the case of ordinary syllogisms, it is composed of a major premise, which is the contains the major term and predicate of the conclusion and by a minor premise, which will then contain the minor term of the reasoning that will act as the subject of the conclusion... an example of reasoning for be able to determine each premise mentioned: all living beings have the ability to reproduce, it is the major premise, all beings Humans are living beings, it is the minor premise, therefore, all human beings are capable of reproducing, it will be the conclusion of the same.

In the case of inductive reasoning (they go from the particular to the general), the conclusion will be reached through a generalization, starting from premises of a particular type. For example, Maria is nurse and she is a very good professional, Juana is also a nurse and therefore she is a very good professional. By induction it is concluded that all nurses will be good professionals.

There are some cases in which to reach the conclusion of a certain reasoning it will be necessary to make use of premises subsidiaries, these are those that will provide more information in addition to that already proposed and contemplated by the major premise and less. An example would be to start from the opposite of what is intended to be demonstrated, because if an absurdity is deduced from such an assumption, then we can affirm the conclusion without problems.

They may not be true or they may be

It is important that we emphasize that the premises that are proposed and from which a conclusion results are true or false and then how Consequently the reasoning that comes from them may be wrong, not be true in any way even if the reasoning is well built.
Logic only deals with the presentation of the premises and of the way in which the conclusions must be related and established, however, it tells us nothing about the truth or not.

Let's go back to the example that we put in the lines above to make this question clearer: “María is nurse and she is a very good professional, Juana is also a nurse and so she is a very good professional. By induction it is concluded that all nurses will be good professionals ”. In this case precisely the reasoning is logically constructed, however, we cannot admit how true that as María is a good professional, Juana, who performs the same profession, is as good as Mary.

Basic ideas of a reasoning

On the other hand, a premise will also be called those ideas that are taken as the basis of reasoning.

Clue that allows to deduce something

And the he pointed indication through which it is possible to know or deduce something it's called a premise.