Look for its definition in google dictionary and you will find,
"A previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion"
"If you find a contradiction, then check your premises and one of them will be wrong." Found this while reading "Atlas Shrugged " and this statement kept coming back to me.
How does one make a premise? Do we give enough thought before making one? Do we reason out enough before drawing conclusions? Well, not always. Every time we find a contradiction, for sure at least one of our initial or intermediate premises was incorrect. So I will now look to make my premises carefully to make sure that my conclusions have the least possible errors, and will find lesser contradictions. But if I am unable to ascertain the correctness of my premise, I will not look to draw a conclusion at all.
