premise

locaux, propriété

Bâtiment et terrain qui l’entoure ; en anglais, ce sens s’emploie généralement au pluriel, premises.

En anglais simple : A building and the land around it, usually referred to in the plural.

• Smoking is forbidden on these premises.
• The company moved to larger premises last year.
• Please leave the premises before we close the gates.

Synonymes : property

Expressions courantes : business premise, commercial premise, private premise

prémisse, hypothèse

Idée considérée comme vraie qui sert de base à un raisonnement ou à une explication.

En anglais simple : An idea you accept as true and use as the starting point for an argument or explanation.

• Your argument rests on a false premise.
• The basic premise is that people want to help.
• Do you accept the premise behind this theory?

Comment l'utiliser : on the premise that… (We planned the trip on the premise that everyone could swim.)

Synonymes : assumption, proposition

Expressions courantes : basic premise, false premise, premise of something, initial premise

poser comme prémisse, supposer

Présenter une idée comme point de départ d’un raisonnement.

En anglais simple : To state an idea as a starting point for further reasoning.

• Let me premise one point before we begin.
• The author premises that people act from self-interest.
• She premised her argument with a statement about human nature.

Comment l'utiliser : premise that… (Let us premise that the figures are accurate.)

Synonymes : postulate, assume

Expressions courantes : premise an argument, premise that something