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predicate or
predication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Predicate or
predication may
refer to:
Predicate (grammar), in
linguistics Predication (philosophy)...
- Look up
predicable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Predicable (Lat. praedicabilis, that
which may be
stated or affirmed,
sometimes called quinque...
- 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...
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functional predicate, or
function symbol, is a
logical symbol that may be
applied to an
object term to
produce another object term.
Functional predicates are...
- 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...
- 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...
- First-order logic—also
called predicate logic,
predicate calculus,
quantificational logic—is a
collection of
formal systems used in mathematics, philosophy...
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machine instructions.
Predication works by
having conditional (
predicated) non-branch
instructions ****ociated with a
predicate, a
Boolean value used by...
- 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...
- first-order
predicate is a
predicate that
takes only individual(s)
constants or
variables as argument(s).
Compare second-order
predicate and higher-order...
