What Is an Unstated Premise?

Unstated premises. Often arguments have unstated premise(s), that is, premise(s) that need to be added for the premises to support the conclusion. It's always instructive to try to state all the premises necessary to support one's conclusion.

What is an example of a premise?

The definition of a premise is a previous statement that an argument is based or how an outcome was decided. An example of premise is a couple seeing a movie chosen by one, because they saw a movie chosen by the other last week.

What is an implicit premise example?

Implicit premises are the unstated claims or unstated assumptions of the argument. For instance, suppose a biologist argues that there is nothing ethically wrong in the fact that about thirteen animals per day are killed in her laboratory, because the deaths further her scientific research.