(Grammar) fundamental part of a sentence that contains a verb and provides details about the subject of a sentence (such as attributes, action, etc.)
base on, found on; establish, set; ascribe, attribute
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Predicate Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
[B149] Kant defines various types of judgments in terms of the relation of the subject to the predicate (e.g., in analytic judgment the predicate is "contained within" the subject, in tautologies the subject and predicate are simply identical). He also interestingly defines substance as a subject and non-predicate. On the one hand, Kant defines substance as "something which can exist as subject and never as mere predicate". [A348] On the other hand, in the Paralogism in A, Kant holds that the self is "the subject of all my possible judgments", but dismisses the rational psychologist's inference that "therefore I, as thinking being (soul), am substance". Why is this? [A400] "The bare concept of substance (supplied by the understanding) contains nothing beyond the requirement that a thing be represented as being subject in itself, and not in turn predicate of anything else....from this source we learn nothing whatsoever" about "the knowledge of the soul for which we are seeking."
Predicate Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To found; to base.
To found; to base.
(v. t.)
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
(v. t.)
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
(v. t.)
That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
(v. i.)
To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation.
(a.)
Predicated.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPredicated.
predicate
\pred"i*cate\ (?), n. [l. praedicatum, neut. of praedicatus, p. p. praedicare: cf. f. prédicat. see predicate, v. t.]
1. (logic) that which is affirmed or denied of the subject. in these propositions, "paper is white," "ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink.
2. (gram.) the word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject.
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predicate calculus
To state as belonging to something.
1. to assert to be a quality,attribute, or property--used with following of 3: found,base used with on
*Some will argue that because existing Security Council resolutions dating back to 1991 have been clearly violated by Hussein, there is already, in Baker's phrase, "sufficient legal authority" to sanction the use of force against the Iraqi regime.This argument may have some merit in legal circles, but it has none in political or practical terms. As Baker himself recently noted, predicating action against Hussein solely on existing Security Council resolutions will not be enough.
*US talk of “nation-building” in Afghanistan is predicated on its alliance with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, with whom the Pentagon is coordinating its military strikes. Just as Washington used the Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army as its proxy in Kosovo, so now it utilizes the gang of war lords centered in the northeast of Afghanistan as its cat’s paw in Central Asia.
*Some will argue that because existing Security Council resolutions dating back to 1991 have been clearly violated by Hussein, there is already, in Baker's phrase, "sufficient legal authority" to sanction the use of force against the Iraqi regime.This argument may have some merit in legal circles, but it has none in political or practical terms. As Baker himself recently noted, predicating action against Hussein solely on existing Security Council resolutions will not be enough.
*US talk of “nation-building” in Afghanistan is predicated on its alliance with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, with whom the Pentagon is coordinating its military strikes. Just as Washington used the Albanian terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army as its proxy in Kosovo, so now it utilizes the gang of war lords centered in the northeast of Afghanistan as its cat’s paw in Central Asia.
Noun
1. (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
(hypernym) term
(classification) logic
2. one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
(synonym) verb phrase
(hypernym) phrase
Verb
1. make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'"
(hypernym) relate, interrelate
(derivation) verb phrase
2. affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President"
(synonym) proclaim
(hypernym) assert, asseverate, maintain
(derivation) postulation, predication
3. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well"
(synonym) connote
(hypernym) imply
(derivation) postulation, predication
Predicate Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
A basic grammatical division of a sentence that consists of what is said about the subject. For example, in the sentence "The voters elected the incumbent", the subject is voters and the predicate is elected the incumbent .
Predicate Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Predicate or predication may refer to:
- Branch predication (computer programming), a choice to execute or not to execute a given instruction based on the content of a machine register
- Predicate (grammar), a grammatical component of a sentence
- Predicate (mathematical logic), a fundamental concept in first-order logic
- Syntactic predicate, specifies the syntactic validity of applying a production
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