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/ˈpɹɛdəˌkeɪt, ˈpɹɛdɪkət/
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NOUN
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(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates - one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
VERB
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involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well -
affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President -
make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'
How To Use predicate In A Sentence
- When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
- Ask someone to tell you what a predicate is and be prepared to see the deer-in-the-headlight phenomenon! Think Progress » North Carolina School Secretary Claims She Was Fired For Speaking Spanish To Parents
- The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly.
- Syntax function of Adverbial phrase of neoteric Chinese adverb "indeed" is mostly serving as predicate, and it also serves as a complement accidentally.
- If we were to choose a single governmental function which ought to remain in the public realm -- neutrally rendered and readily scrutable -- it would surely be that upon which all other government functions, and a government's very legitimacy, are predicated: The administration of elections. Rob Richie: John Gideon, R.I.P. -- and the "Gideon Initiative" for citizenship ownership of our elections
- The theory that existence is not a predicate implies, however, that all existential propositions are synthetic.
- Aristotle construed the deductive stage of scientific inquiry as the interposition of middle terms between the subject and predicate terms of the statement to be proved.
- Then for every predicate E (x) of expressions of L defined in L+ one can prove in L+ a general sentence of the form Alfred Tarski
- Then burst his mighty heart," priority is given to a word embodying both predicate and copula. The Philosophy of Style
- _inflection_; as when we say, Fire burns; the change of the second word from _burn_ to _burns_ showing that we mean to affirm the predicate burn of the subject fire. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive