Crossword clues for predication
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predication \Pred`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. praedicatio: cf. F. pr['e]dication.]
The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion.
--Locke.Preaching. [Obs. or Scot.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Old French predicacion (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin predicationem, from Latin praedicationem (nominative praedicatio) "a foretelling, prediction," noun of action from past participle stem of praedicare (see predicate (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A proclamation, announcement or preaching 2 An assertion or affirmation
WordNet
n. (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument [syn: postulation]
Usage examples of "predication".
In this case, as well as in singular propositions, a predication is made concerning the whole subject as a whole.
But, on the other hand, from the falsity of a proposition predicating a given term, we cannot infer the truth of the predication of any particular contrary term.
But what predication is possible concerning the hats of all members of Parliament from the beginning?
It may be added that, as the genus represents ancestral derivation, the predication of genus in a definition indicates the remote causes of the phenomena denoted by the name defined.
Accident bear the same relation to one another as Derivative and Empirical Laws: the predication of a proprium is a derivative law, and the predication of an accident is an empirical law.
Relation, indeed, is the abstract of all predication, and ought not to appear in a list along with special forms of itself.
Now, I do not pretend that this is what Aristotle meant and was trying to say: but if Likeness, Co-existence, Succession and Causation are fundamental forms of predication, a good mind analysing the fact of predication is likely to happen upon them in one set of words or another.
Perhaps the identity in substance with differentiation in reason will be defended on the ground that Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.
Privation does not point to something present but precisely to an absence, to something absent, to the negation or lack of Real-being: the case would be like that of the affirmation of non-existence, where there is no real predication but simply a denial.
First, by the denial of their philosophical postulates, by the predication of immaterial substance, affirming the soul to be a spaceless point, its life an indivisible moment.
The complete predication, the weird collaboration of disparate parts of speech into whole utterances, is now within my working vocabulary.
Canons to special predications of causation by means of minor premises, showing that certain instances satisfy the Canons.
Now help, Thomas, for *him that harrow'd hell,* *Christ For elles must we oure bookes sell, And if ye lack our predication, Then goes this world all to destruction.