Definition of Predicables. Meaning of Predicables. Synonyms of Predicables

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Definition of Predicables

Predicable
Predicable Pred"i*ca*ble, n. 1. Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals. 2. (Logic) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.

Meaning of Predicables from wikipedia

- from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Predicables". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press....
- predicate or predication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Predicate or predication may refer to: Predicate (grammar), in linguistics Predication (philosophy)...
- 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...
- 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...
- First-order logic—also known as predicate logic, quantificational logic, and first-order predicate calculus—is a collection of formal systems used in mathematics...
- machine instructions. Predication works by having conditional (predicated) non-branch instructions ****ociated with a predicate, a Boolean value used by...
- 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...
- In term logic, a genus is one of the predicables; it is that part of a definition which is also predicable of other things different from the definiendum...
- In computer programming, predicate dispatch is a generalisation of multiple dispatch ("multimethods") that allows the method to call to be selected at...
- Predicate transformer semantics were introduced by Edsger Dijkstra in his seminal paper "Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs"...