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Definition of Predication
1. Noun. (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument.
Category relationships: Logic
Generic synonyms: Declaration
Derivative terms: Postulate, Predicate, Predicate
Definition of Predication
1. n. The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.
Definition of Predication
1. Noun. A proclamation, announcement or preaching ¹
2. Noun. An assertion or affirmation ¹
3. Noun. (logic) A self-evident postulate ¹
4. Noun. (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predication
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predication
Literary usage of Predication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"For a primitive predication is essentially a singular act having relation to a
... Hence if x stand for a proposition which is a primitive predication, ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1908)
"THE "WHAT" AND "WHY" OF predication i. Having now discussed broadly the rise of
that form of meaning to which the word predication is applied, ..."
3. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"The syntactic outline presents: (1) the predication types as they are made up of
items ... The chief predication base, with its parts ordered as they occur, ..."
4. Composition for College Students by Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott (1922)
"To be complete a sentence must contain, explicitly or implicitly, at least
one .independent predication.1 An understanding of this statement requires an ..."
5. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"The construction denotes the purpose of the main predication. The translation
is: 'in order to do, in order that, so that, for (someone) to, to'. ..."
6. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"A verb of incomplete predication in connection with a predicate complement, the
verb assuming in a mere formal way the function of predication, ..."
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