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PREDICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predication mean? 

PREDICATION (noun)
  The noun PREDICATION has 1 sense:

1. (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argumentplay

  Familiarity information: PREDICATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PREDICATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

postulation; predication

Hypernyms ("predication" is a kind of...):

declaration (a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written))

Domain category:

logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)

Derivation:

predicate (involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic)

predicate (affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of)


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