 The premise or premise A is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion.3 In other words, the premise is an assumption that something is true. In logic, an argument requires a set of at least two declarative sentences or propositions known as the premises or premises along with another declarative sentence or proposition known as the conclusion. This structure of two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure. More complex arguments can use a series of rules to connect several premises to one conclusion, or to derive a number of conclusions from the original premises which then act as premises for additional conclusions. An example of this is the use of the rules of inference found within symbolic logic. Where a statal held that any logical argument could be reduced to two premises and conclusion.4 Premises are sometimes left unstated in which case they are called missing premises. For example, Socrates is mortal because all men are mortal. It is evident that a tacitly understood claim is that Socrates is a man. The fully expressed reasoning is thus. Because all men are mortal and Socrates is a man, Socrates is mortal. In this example, the independent clause is preceding the comma namely, all men are mortal and Socrates is a man are the premises, while Socrates is mortal is the conclusion. The proof of a conclusion depends on both the truth of the premises and the validity of the argument.