- Look up
predicable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Predicable (Lat. praedicabilis, that
which may be
stated or affirmed,
sometimes called quinque...
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predicate or
predication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Predicate or
predication may
refer to:
Predicate (grammar), in
linguistics Predication (philosophy)...
- 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...
- 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...
- First-order logic—also
known as
predicate logic,
quantificational logic, and first-order
predicate calculus—is a
collection of
formal systems used in mathematics...
- In logic, a
predicate is a
symbol that
represents a
property or a relation. For instance, in the first-order
formula P(a){\displaystyle P(a)}, the symbol...
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predication is
distinguished from the
linguistic predication with the
notion that a
predicable is a
metaphysical item and is
ontologically predicated...
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machine instructions.
Predication works by
having conditional (
predicated) non-branch
instructions ****ociated with a
predicate, a
Boolean value used by...
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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...
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Predicate transformer semantics were
introduced by
Edsger Dijkstra in his
seminal paper "Guarded commands,
nondeterminacy and
formal derivation of programs"...
