2. Verb. (third-person singular of predicate) ¹
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Definition of Predicates
1. predicate [v] - See also: predicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicates
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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