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The 24 pages that link to Premise, each with the reason it gives.

• Deductive reasoningRelated: Deductive guarantees are conditional on the truth of the premises.

• Rule of inferenceRelated: Inference rules take premises as their inputs.

• InferenceRelated: Premises supply the starting claims from which deductive inferences derive conclusions.

• Logical consequenceRelated: Consequence asks what must follow when these assumptions hold.

• Modus ponensRelated: The conditional and its antecedent are the two premises from which the conclusion follows.

• ConclusionRelated: A conclusion’s support consists of premises.

• Modus tollensRelated: The conditional and the denial of its consequent are the two required starting statements.

• SyllogismRelated: A syllogism’s two premises supply the statements from which its conclusion is meant to follow.

• Reductio ad absurdumRelated: The reductio's temporary assumption functions as a premise to be tested.

• Logical validityRelated: Validity asks what follows when every premise is assumed true.

• AcceptanceRelated: Accepted propositions function as premises in inference.

• Biconditional introductionRelated: Premises may support either conditional proof used before introduction.

• Conjunction introductionRelated: Both input propositions serve as premises for the rule’s conclusion.

• Conjunction eliminationRelated: The conjunction is the premise from which the rule licenses an inference.

• False dilemmaRelated: The restricted choice is often smuggled into an argument as an unquestioned premise.

• Base (foundation)Related: An argument rests on premises in the way a structure rests on supports.