n. 25B6; noun the premise that human life consists of a series of choices : PROPOSITION, assumption, hypothesis, thesis, presupposition, postulation, postulate, supposition, presumption, surmise, conjecture, speculation, assertion, belief.
25B6; verb they premised that the cosmos is indestructible : POSTULATE, hypothesize, conjecture, posit, theorize, suppose, presuppose, surmise, assume.