Crossword-Solution: PREMISS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

PHAEDRUS: I admit that there is reason in what you say, and I too will be reasonable, and will allow you to start with the premiss that the lover is more disordered in his wits than the non-lover; if in what remains you make a longer and better speech than Lysias, and use other arguments, then I say again, that a statue you shall have of beaten gold, and take your place by the colossal offerings of the Cypselids at Olympia.

There is here a fact of great importance for ethical thought, no matter from what ultimate premiss it starts.

But if this be the case, it is a result to be demonstrated, not a premiss from which to start in defining truth and falsehood.

Well, having got your natural law in this way, when you are offered another apple which you find is hard and green, you say, "All hard and green apples are sour; this apple is hard and green, therefore this apple is sour." That train of reasoning is what logicians call a syllogism, and has all its various parts and terms,--its major premiss, its minor premiss, and its conclusion.

There is even less of connexion, however, in the treatment of this theme, between the premiss and the conclusion, than in the two previous chapters.