PREMISSES Antonyms

• a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• the speech act of replying to a question

• the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims

• a nonverbal reaction

• react verbally

• respond to a signal

• give the correct answer or solution to

• understand the meaning of

• give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)

• be liable or accountable

• be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

• match or correspond

• be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of

• react to a stimulus or command

• a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

• an intuitive assumption

• the temporal end; the concluding time

• event whose occurrence ends something

• the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)

• the act of ending something

• a final settlement

• the last section of a communication

• the act of making up your mind about something

• the act of making up your mind about something

• a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

• (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred

• the outcome of a game or contest

• the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose

• an opinion formed by judging something

• the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event

• (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it

• the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

• the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision

• the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• something that results

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

• the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together

• the trait of being resolute

• finding a solution to a problem

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• analysis into clear-cut components

• (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture

• the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)

• (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• something that results

• the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause

• issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end

• produce as a result or residue

• come about or follow as a consequence

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities

• a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution

• a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem

• a method for solving a problem

• the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

• the successful action of solving a problem