predicate
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- noun
- /ˈprɛdɪˌkeɪt/
- Specialized
:
predicado
- In the sentence 'The cat sleeps on the mat', 'sleeps on the mat' is the predicate that tells us what the cat does.
- subject and predicate
- predicate (verb)
- function as a predicate
He just tells us that it's not yet a predicate of the subject, right?
- He just tells us that it's not yet a predicate of the subject, right?
- It's also the predicate of a functioning psyche.
Examples
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Obviously enough, being a part and being a predicate are two different things.
Academic text (2016) -
There is no feeling which is not also a representation, a predicate of something determined logically by the feelings which precede it.
Academic text (2017) -
My answer to these questions involves first a closer analysis of both subject and predicate in the statement "God exists."
Academic text (1998) -
For all its words, numbers, and pictures, the record we attempt to experience lacks a predicate.
Academic text (1994) -
It's also the predicate of a functioning psyche.
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Examining the rationale of Bob Jones is a predicate to ascertaining its essential meaning, force, and reach.
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Thus, the notion of "intrinsic evil" was transformed into a premoral predicate of world process.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, a countervailing federal statute would not in itself disprove a key factual predicate on which Lawrence depends.
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Lloyd P. Gerson argues that Platonic Forms do not function as predicates, but rather provide the explanation for the possibility of predication.
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Philoponus evidently wants to show that universals that function as predicates are concepts abstracted from particulars.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
A group of words that shows an action and the words that go with it
The part of a sentence that gives new information about the person or thing it is about
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A system of logic that studies statements about things and words like 'all' and 'some'
Surface Forms
Etymology
Predicate comes from the Latin praedicare, made from prae- 'before' and dic- 'say'. This gives a clear image: a predicate is what you 'say about' the subject in a sentence.