Definition of Predicates

1. Noun. (plural of predicate) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of predicate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predicates

1. predicate [v] - See also: predicate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicates

prediastolic
predicability
predicable
predicables
predicably
predicament
predicamental
predicaments
predicand
predicant
predicants
predicate
predicate calculus
predicate logic
predicated
predicates (current term)
predicating
predication
predications
predicative
predicative adjective
predicative adjectives
predicative case
predicative cases
predicatively
predicatives
predicator
predicators
predicatory
predicrotic

Literary usage of Predicates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of Religion: A Critical and Speculative Treatise of Man's by George Trumbull Ladd (1905)
"And these predicates, which our thought must ascribe to the Divine Being, ... Each of these predicates, since each involves an attempt of the human mind to ..."

2. The Philosophy of Religion: A Critical and Speculative Treatise of Man's by George Trumbull Ladd (1905)
"And these predicates, which our thought must ascribe to the Divine Being, ... Each of these predicates, since each involves an attempt of the human mind to ..."

3. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"Immediate Inference by the Sum of several predicates. After examination of the properties of any subject, it is necessary to collect the various predicates ..."

4. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"of all predicates : it is Unían numero and indivisible. ... Substance is known only as the Subject of predicates, that is, relatively to them ; as they also ..."

5. Handbook of the English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1875)
"Subjects and predicates.—On the other hand, the logical terms ' Subject' and ' Predicate' are indispensable. The object concerning which we make an ..."

6. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY AS predicates OF ACTUAL JUDGMENTS. § 33- In its objective sense, " necessary " is always in the last instance a predicate of that ..."

7. Logic: In Three Books, of Thought, of Investigation, and of Knowledge by Hermann Lotze (1884)
"It is soon found that this is only possible, if the aggregate of all conceivable predicates be divided into a definite Q and the sum of all those which are ..."

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