<P> A premise or premiss is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion . In other words, a premise is an assumption that something is true . In logic, an argument requires a set of (at least) two declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises or premisses along with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion . This structure of two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure . More complex arguments can use a series of rules to connect several premises to one conclusion, or to derive a number of conclusions from the original premises which then act as premises for additional conclusions . An example of this is the use of the rules of inference found within symbolic logic . </P> <P> Aristotle held that any logical argument could be reduced to two premises and a conclusion . Premises are sometimes left unstated in which case they are called missing premises, for example: </P>

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