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publication now in the
public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "
Predicables". Encyclopædia
Britannica (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press....
-
predicate or
predication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Predicate or
predication may
refer to:
Predicate (grammar), in
linguistics Predication (philosophy)...
- The term
predicate is used in two ways in
linguistics and its subfields. The
first defines a
predicate as
everything in a
standard declarative sentence...
- In the
criminal law of the
United States, a
predicate crime or
offense is a
crime which is a
component of a
larger crime. The
larger crime may be racketeering...
- First-order logic—also
called predicate logic,
predicate calculus,
quantificational logic—is a
collection of
formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy...
- first-order
predicate is a
predicate that
takes only individual(s)
constants or
variables as argument(s).
Compare second-order
predicate and higher-order...
-
Predication in
philosophy refers to an act of
judgement where one term is
subsumed under another. A
comprehensive conceptualization describes it as the...
- In logic, a
predicate is a
symbol that
represents a
property or a relation. For instance, in the first-order
formula P ( a ) {\displaystyle P(a)} , the...
- second-order
predicate is a
predicate that
takes a first-order
predicate as an argument.
Compare higher-order
predicate. The idea of
second order predication was...
- In
computer programming, an
opaque predicate is a
predicate, an
expression that
evaluates to
either "true" or "false", for
which the
outcome is
known by...
