The difference between Argument and Premise

When used as nouns, argument means a fact or statement used to support a proposition, whereas premise means a proposition antecedently supposed or proved.

When used as verbs, argument means to put forward as an argument, whereas premise means to state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

check bellow for the other definitions of Argument and Premise

  1. Argument as a noun:

    A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.

  2. Argument as a noun:

    A verbal dispute; a quarrel.

  3. Argument as a noun:

    A process of reasoning.

  4. Argument as a noun (philosophy, logic):

    A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.

  5. Argument as a noun (mathematics):

    The independent variable of a function.

  6. Argument as a noun (mathematics):

    The phase of a complex number.

  7. Argument as a noun (programming):

    A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.

    Examples:

    "Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks."

  8. Argument as a noun (programming):

    A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.

  9. Argument as a noun (linguistics):

    Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.

  10. Argument as a noun (astronomy):

    The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.

    Examples:

    "The altitude is the argument of the refraction."

  11. Argument as a noun:

    The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.

  12. Argument as a noun:

    Matter for question; business in hand.

  1. Argument as a verb:

    To put forward as an argument; to argue.

  1. Premise as a noun:

    A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

  2. Premise as a noun (logic):

    Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.

  3. Premise as a noun (usually, in the plural, legal):

    Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

  4. Premise as a noun (usually, in the plural):

    A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. (This meaning arose from meaning #3, by owners of land and/or buildings finding the word in their title deeds and wrongly guessing its meaning.)

    Examples:

    "trespass on another’s premises'"

  5. Premise as a noun (authorship):

    The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

  1. Premise as a verb:

    To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

  2. Premise as a verb:

    To make a premise.

  3. Premise as a verb:

    To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

  4. Premise as a verb:

    To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

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